to say it's a drawer

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

I'm off to get some clothes out of my Chester draws.

If we read more... we'd know about drawers

Reading doesn't generally help with pronunciation, does it?

Did you know it's perfectly possible to know what a drawer is without pronouncing it any differently from 'draw'? True story.

picklemepopcorn 'drawer' doesn't have two syllables.
Try saying 'droar' with a rhotic R at the end. You close your lips a bit to make that second R sound.

I've never heard of "draw" rather than drawer before mumsnet. Live in Ireland.

I'm intrigued that lots of people keep joking about chester draws

Firstly, surely no one actually makes that mistake? When I first saw it, it was in one of those goofy articles about hilarious errors. Seems to have become a bit of an urban legend.

Secondly, these fools are equally likely, in my book, to be calling it a chester drawers; misunderstanding the 'chest of' bit doesn't make you any more likely to be a draw rather than a 'dror' person, does it? Unless, of course, you're one of the people on this thread who think certain pronunciations are 'wrong' or 'stupid'...

Drawer does have two syllables.

Draw - er.

It’s very much draw-ers with a traditional Bristolian accent. Unless you are selling them in certain postcodes where it’s definitely Chester Draws.

Of course if you pronounced it properly then you would spell it properly, no problem

I do pronounce it properly (draw) and have no problem spelling it properly (drawer).

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No way! It's roar with a d at the start.

TheGoldenBowl - I have seen lots of the 'draw' spelling here on MN, on threads unrelated to pronunciation. Just casual remarks about furniture, lost keys, nosy MILs, etc.

Drawer does have two syllables.

Only when you’re talking about someone who draws.

They sound the same but they are different. So are where and wear and their and there. It is all about context. I have spent many years copywriting about furniture with drawers, so seeing it spelt incorrectly irks me as well.

Christ almighty this is hard work. We all know how to spell draw and drawer. We all know their meanings. Why. An some people not grasp that their accent isn't the only accent and in some parts of the country both words will sound the same. It's fucking rude to keep telling people they're pronouncing it wrong because of their accent.

HungryDonkey

Have you really seen people selling a 'chester draws'?! And you're, presumably, suggesting that the idiocy of that error goes hand in hand with the stupidity of calling it a 'draw' instead of a 'dror', despite the fact that the latter issue is purely a matter or regional pronunciation? Nice.

Exactly Grilled

On the subject of homophones, I once got my daughter a book to practice her spelling and there was a section on homophones. And they gave flaw and floor as an example. It took us days and days of saying it out loud, and showing it to everyone who came into the house and getting them to say it out loud before we realised that it was a regional accent, we had thought it was a printing error. Whoever wrote the book must have decided that a south of England (I'm guessing?) accent was 'correct' English. I found it quite irritating because there are plenty of examples of homophones that would be unaffected by accent.

It is totally irrelevant whether or not the pronunciation is the same or different. The spelling is different.

Reed/Read Read/Red
Ewe/You/Yew
Led/Lead
Your/Yore/You're/Yaw

Good old Chester.... www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.X++chester+draws.TRS0&_nkw=++chester+draws&_sacat=0

"they gave flaw and floor as an example" Sound the same to me!

I get the draws pronunciation, even though that's not how I pronounce it. But Chester? Is 'er' a regional version of 'of' ?

"they gave flaw and floor as an example" Sound the same to me!

In my accent they are totally different. They don't come close to rhyming and the r and w sound are completely different. It honestly had me baffled at the time.

treacle - oops, bad thread on which to muddle practice and practise

Incidentally, that flaw/floor thing isn't just a southern England thing. It's a LOT of England.

It is only the SE of England that has the "regional vairiation"

The rest of the UK say drawer correctly.

Golden you're right Autocorrect wrote it and I didn't proof read!

Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that floor and flaw are wrong, now that I understand the pronunciation, just that I thought it was a bit unfair putting them in a book as an example when there are so many people who would be confused by it.

Inverness here and I pronounce it draw-er.

speakout

Are you saying that it's only in the SE of England that people say 'draw' instead of 'dror'?! Wrong! It's an awful lot of England.