to say it's a drawer

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

The W is silent. It's not like 'flower'.

And to keep this going a little bit further, the w isn't pronounced in flower in my accent either.

American DD says draw to rhyme with AH.

DRAAH

Whereas drawer is DROAARRRR.

Which is odd really, as you might expect her to say DROWAHHH given we're fairly close to Boston.

Spelling is easier for those who regularly read books.

Drawer and draw sound the same to me - but I know the difference and would write it correctly.

I keep clothes in my draws. People who are good at art are drawers. There you go.

How do you say flower without the w?

Well that's me told! 😂

Can't say I have spent much of my life pondering the spelling of drawers to be honest. Is it's drawers or drawer? I'd say drawers but I expect I'll be hung up on that one. In fact I say draws I think. But then I'm really quite deaf and struggle to HEAR the difference between ferry and fairy, k, also dyslexic and on top of that I'm welsh! We seem to just make vaguely the right sound and people can understand us 😂 😂 😂

I move helped host/run an environmental event, at the end of the two week, we had the a bigger event, where amount other things and people attending was Bill Oddie. Honestly I had no idea who this man was at the time, I probably should have taken the time to look it up or at least seen it written down, because what I heard was Bloddy, so in the lead up to the weekend, the entire event I went around telling people that Bloddy was coming. They were all delighted and said how much they liked him, no one ever questioned what I was saying and all seemed to understand who I was referring to the entire time, well until I told my Scottish fiancé who looked at me like I had grown horns! 😂 we still laugh whenever we see anything will Bill Oddie on it and I put on my best welsh accent and say "Bloddy is coming". 😂

Sound the same to me but agree irritation over spelling!

It is because an old meaning of to draw means pull - like draw the curtains, draw a bath, draw on a cigarette, to draw something out. A drawer is a thing which is drawn [pulled] out of the cabinet.

How do you say flower without the w?

In exactly the same way that I say 'flour'. The two words are identical in my accent. Both pronounced 'flar'

I can't work out how I say draw (as in art) or drawer (as in storage) any more.

I can live with "draw" for drawer but hearing (and seeing!!) "carn't" sets my teeth on edge.

But I definitely say flower not flag. What the 'eff is a flah?

If you listen to the Queen (who, incidentally, has an accent limited to the older members of the Royal Family, even Prince Charles's has been modified over the years, I imagine by now only the old Duchesses and cousins still use it) she would say "flah". She would also no doubt say "hie nie brine kie"

I say flah. With a slight bend in the aaa sound, but not enough to add a second syllable.

I say flu-wobbly u-u definitely don't pronounce the r.

I pronounce flour and flower almost exactly the same. Probably if I'm honest there is a bit of intrusive W in flour. But if I was enunciating there would be a subtle difference. ou and ow are slightly different but very close. My lips end up in a smaller circle with ow and a larger one with ou.

Derailing with Mary Berry's "lair" for "layer"

It's a drawer!

I'm Scottish and seeing and hearing draw just sounds so wrong

Not the same at all

Draw, drawer and dror all sound the same in my accent

Drawer is pronounced the same as draw in a non-rhotic accent, but that's no excuse for spelling it incorrectly. See and sea are pronounced the same too, but I don't go for a swim in the see.

I don't like 'laird' hair. It's layered. Lay-er not lair.