to say it's a drawer

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a drawer, a drawer, a drawer, a drawer.
Not a fucking draw.

No matter how hard I try, I cannot make it two syllables. And I'm Welsh and can usually make anything two syllables.

of course if you pronounced it properly...

You see - that's the attitude that prompted my 'condescending' question. That attitude of 'I'm a bit better than you because I labour any syllable with a hint of 'r' in it - it was apparent from the very first post.

Or as Primal correctly points out it does sometimes sound more like dror!

Are you on many carpentry blogs? Furniture forums? IKEA hack websites? Because I don't think I've seen 'draw' or 'drawer' at all this week. grin

flipping DIY and Home organisation pages!

OP - this does my head in too! Fellow Scot here not sure if it makes a difference, can confirm we also definitely say draw-er, not sure if you’re north or south! It isn’t bloody draw. It is not pronounced draw and it is not spelled draw!!

at Chester Draw. Bet you he has a few tales to tell...

Hmmm... It does seem (as I suspected) that it's mainly a Scottish thing, not a widespread pronunciation. Not that that makes it any less valid. But it's a bit rich to imply everyone else is somehow wrong when your version is almost certainly a minority pronunciation...

It’s drawrr in Ireland too. And America. So many places!!!

But Donny even if someone habitually makes that spelling mistake, they're hardly going to make a point of flagging it up for everyone here on this thread, where they will have seen from post number one that they are wrong hmm

That’s alright, they don’t have to. It’s not compulsory.

I'm in the US, and drawer/draw are pronounced differently here. There are 300 million of us. I'd call the widespread.

That was supposed to be ‘So, many places’. There’s far more Americans than English and Welsh people so not sure it is a minority pronunciation exactly (not that Americans count on MN).

Err it’s really not just a Scottish thing! Ireland,lost of parts of America and Canada, and even parts of England too!

X post!!!

No offence steff but you lot pronounce a lot of things rather oddly over there...

Is it a Canadian thing? I hear the r at the end here but not a separate syllable. Like 'drawr', rather than 'drawer'.

How can draw & drawer sound the same, totally had no idea that some folk can't pronounce drawer.

Well, there are a lot more if us than there are of you, so perhaps you're the ones who are wrong.

Scottish. You draw pictures and you put you socks in the dror. Obviously.

This is why mumsnet needs sound clips. I cannot picture (hear? imagine?) what drawer sounds like when it doesn't sound like draw!

(I do spell it correctly though and totally agree with you OP!)

Golden I don’t think you understand what “no offence” means.

Well, there are a lot more if us than there are of you, so perhaps you're the ones who are wrong.

We invented the language so nerr nerr nerr Of course we really didn't.

As I said in my second post, Golden, it’s the spelling that annoys me more than the pronunciation. But the pronunciation is what leads to the incorrect spelling, I think. It’s odd that Midlands and South East English pronunciations have a problem with “r” in this word, given that they’re so ready to chuck an extra “r” into the phrase “law and order”.
Lauren Order, Chester Draw’s girlfriend.

But if it's pronounced draw in your regional accent as it is in most of England then you are pronouncing it properly to say draw!
How would you like someone to tell you not to say you're Scortish because it should be pronounced Scottish!
Obviously words should be spelled correctly but some people aren't great spellers. And pedantry annoys me more than poor spelling tbh.

With the OP here. Scottish and definitely different pronunciations- can also spell them correctly.

Do those who can’t imagine it being said differently from how you say it not have TVs or radios? how can you never have heard different accents?