query?

So about half a dozen times in the course of literally only days, someone has said the word "query" in my presence. Always -- always -- pronounced "quairy." But me, I pronounce it queery. And this weird pronunciation has seriously thrown me for a loop. I've always pronounced it queery. Everyone I know has always pronounced it queery. I look it up in dictionary and that says it's pronounced queery, and the recording reiterates that. So... where is this strange new quairy pronunciation coming from? Have I actually been missing it all these years? Or (obviously my favorite explanation, but totally unsupported by any data at my disposal), is there a vast conspiracy to avoid any vestige of queerness when speaking?