to say it's a drawer

[PompholyxOfUnknownOrigin]

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

It’s definitely draw-er, as in a chest of drawers in Edinburgh, draw is something artists do.

Grammar and pronunciation are particular irritants to me, it drives me mad when words aren't spelt correctly.

Also south east. Also say 'draw' but know to spell it 'drawer' as it would sound more like 'draw-ah' and I'm not Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Also not a total fucking idiot as half this thread would like to make out.

It’s only on MN that I’ve heard people say that they can’t imagine a certain word being pronounced differently to the way they pronounce it Normal people in the real world watch movies and tv programmes and get a general idea of other accents - it’s part of general knowledge, surely?

I say to-mah-to but I’m well aware that millions of people say to-may-to

They are homophones.

Hmm that might depend on your accent/regional variations

I would pronounce them clearly differently

Rick Grimes pronounces 'Carl' as 'Coral'.

Why is that?

The one I really can't stand is "drawing" pronounced "draw-ring" ugh!

Miss Singerbrains, it's just one word that some of us can't grasp. I haven't managed to pin any Scottish people down and asked them to say it for me, haven't heard it on tv recently, simply cannot fathom how to put an extra syllable in without sounding weird. Clearly it doesn't sound weird when Scottish and West Country people say it.

I just had my DD (who has an American accent) say them and they are totally different. I said them back to her in my English accent and now she's looking at me like I've got two heads...

I can't say 'drawer'. I say draw.
I have always said 'clawzit' for closet.

Owl and towel are said thusly - "Ow-wool", "Towe-wool".

And I say draw-ring for drawing.

I also have the dreaded glottal stop.

I'm from Surrey I don't sound like it though.

A draw is also a bag of weed.

I think many of us know how words are spelled we just developed not saying them that way.

I know water and art have Ts in them, I'm not stupid (despite how I may sound), although I'm still likely to say them without. It's weird because I grew up with people who didn't have a glottal stop.

Also how rude is it to name a glottal stop a glottal stop? I can't even pronounce that properly.

It takes real effort for me to pronounce my Ts and I always feel like I'm putting on some faux-posh accent. It just sounds fake to my ears.

Also how rude is it to name a glottal stop a glottal stop? I can't even pronounce that properly.

Nah mate, it's a gloh-ul stop innit?

Sounds like me to a T.

Terry Pratcheh.

Me too!

Some accents give draw/drawer the same pronunciation, some don't. Either option is correct.

Curiously, rhoticity is considered by fuddy duddy linguists as "non-standard" in the UK, while it's the other way round in the US.

I find it interesting that many people who insist that only their way is correct don't seem to have nearly as much trouble accepting non-standard punctuation when they write.

I'm a bit bemused by those explaining how it's spelt... We all know that, surely? No one's saying that their particular pronunciation means that they get to spell it differently But it's a fairly elementary point of the English language that you don't say everything exactly as it's written down. As I've already noted, it's not written 'dror' either...

It seems, from later explanations, that OP was actually bemoaning people's spelling errors rather than pronunciation, but that wasn't clear either to me or to all the posters who jumped in to agree that people who treat the two words as homophones are stupid and "can't pronounce drawer".

I'm perfectly aware of how to spell both. I'm also perfectly aware that many people pronounce them differently. It wouldn't be an jssue for me but for all the superior attitudes from the 'dror' faction.

Oh, and I have a close friend called Carl. Our Scottish friends insist on calling him Carol though

Oh god! You don't say draw-wer do you?

I can imagine drawer having one syllable and sounding like draw. I draw a picture, I put things in a drawer also Scottish

Another scot here.

Draw and drawer are completely different pronunciations.

Us scots like to squeeze every drop of juice we can out of our consonants.

Makes me laugh when I hear Americans trying to say mirror.

*cant imagine.

I can't say the name Carl....fortunately I've only met one person called Carl in my almost half century on Earth. Maybe Scots just avoid that name?! 😂

If we read more......we'd know about drawers. All sorts of drawers!
That's why it matters. If we can't spell words like this,what else are we not reading,learning,knowing !