to say it's a drawer

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

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 assumed from the outset that she meant the spelling, I'm surprised further explanations were necessary.

Chester? Is 'er' a regional version of 'of' ?

It’s more “chest o’drawers” which then gets misspelt as Chester draws.

Treacle, the 'er' comes from people swallowtail the 'of'. Correctly written it would be more like 'chest o' drawers'.

Now, droar I can do!

Draw-er still is a struggle though. An artist would be a drawrer, for me. I can't get the syllable on without the intrusive r.

Treacle, the 'er' comes from people swallowtail the 'of'. Correctly written it would be more like 'chest o' drawers'.

Ah, yes, of course. That makes sense.

I can't get the syllable on without the intrusive r.

You need to try it in a Scottish accent. It makes sense then.

speakout ok dear. You are correct. Easier to let you have it than try to explain to you, because you're having difficulties understanding.

Standard American English pronounces "mirror" and "Carl" like any British rhotic accent.

Irish English would pronounce "Carl" as "Carol" in some cases, along with /fillum/ for "film" because of generally only one L variant, whereas "standard" English has 2. (try saying the L at the beginning of a word, and the L in the middle)

"if we read more.....we'd....." Quite agree. We might also know how to punctuate conditional sentences.

Flaw/floor are the same also in my northern accent, and indeed in most non-rhotic accents.

Definitely a drawer , draw and drawer sound completely different to me but I'm Scottish so I think it depends on local dialect

Well, clever old you, CharlieSierra

I am from NI and had never heard draw used for drawer until I joined mn, I see it spelled that way a lot. Lots of people type how they would speak so I think using that spelling is understandable.

I've been buying second hand furniture recently on eBay and Gumtree.
I'd first search "chest of drawers" which would, happily, yield the most results, then "chest of draws" which still have a few results, then "Chester draws" which gave the odd one or two, so I concluded that most people do, actually spell it correctly.

And for what it's worth, I'm anither Scot who pronounces drawers and draws quite differently

'Draw' and 'Dror' are homophones from my mouth.

"Can you draw and drawer"

Both words sound the same.

I always get confused on these threads though with the way everyone spells their pronunciations. I start doubting whether I do even say it the way I've always thought.

*a drawer, not and

Joke - I like living in a bungalow. It's a nice little house but it does have one major flaw.

Took me ages to get that and I'm Scottish.

I like living in a bungalow. It's a nice little house but it does have one major flaw.

it would have taken me ages too without the context of this thread.

Ohhh yes, this irks me

spelt and pronounced drawer/draw-er

I’m also scottish and there is a distinct difference between draw and drawer when I say them out loud.
My accent is often mercilessly mocked by my own dc at times because everyone even within our household has slightly different accents. I have what I would class as generic Scots accent with a few random words that give away where I grew up. Dd’s Accent is closest to mine but with a highland lilt to it ds1 has a more generic accent and is exceptionally well spoken and ds2 has an odd mix of the Highlands and dh and I while trying to unsuccessfully throw in some Doric just for good measure because he was born in Aberdeen. All he ends up doing is sounding like a tourist trying to copy a Doric speaker

How can people think that 'draw' and 'drawer' are pronounced the same? One has an extra syllable! Genuinely baffled.

Even if in your dialect they sound the same, surely you still know they're different words and are spelled differently?

Like any homonym:
there/their/they're
beet/beat
bare/bear

How do you pronounce drawers when you are talking about old fashioned knickers?

Yabu. It's a chester draws innit.

Drawer is 2 syllables. Draw is 1 syllable.
People who say drawer don't annoy me as much as people who write or say they could of when they obviously of'nt.

How can people think that 'draw' and 'drawer' are pronounced the same? One has an extra syllable! Genuinely baffled.

Because for the majority of people in the UK they are pronounced the same, that doesn't make either way right, just different, and yes all can see they are spelt differently.

Bare with me...