Keeping socks in a draw

[CatCaretaker]

Where did draw as a misnomer for drawer come from? I never heard it until I joined Mumsnet (though I'm Irish so maybe it's not a thing here). Is it that a certain accent masks the 'er' in drawer? It drives me bonkers.

There's a trending thread right now, but the OP said draw instead of drawer, and all I want to do is reply correcting her (I won't obviously)! How has she reached this age (middle aged from context in the thread) with nobody having asked her why she is saying draw instead of drawer?

No, it was 'mee-at', 'pe-as'.

Why are you so rude more importantly.

Accents vary. I say world as wurld (non-rhotic), a Scottish friend says it as wurruld, and a SE friend says is as wehwuld.

Wehwurld? An extra w in the middle of world? I’m in the SE and can’t imagine what you mean?

I say wurr-ild for world but am guilty of putting in extra syllables eg
door- doh-arr
school - skoo-ahl

Etc

@JoyousEagle , I've definitely heard it. i can't explain it either, and it's from those who have lived here (London outskirts) all their lives, as did the generations before them.
There's also the London 'w' for 'll'.

I know what she means. Just managing to get an extra syllable in.

I did mean er. I blame auto correct

We say ‘draw uh’

Err, Scottish people do, No-one says “draw “ here,

@BernardBlacksMolluscs , I'm not Scottish, and I say drawers as 'draw-uhs'.
Chester draws and chest of drawers sound differently.

Your punctuation needs attention.

“in some English accents you would pronounce pour, pore and paw all the same, but doesn’t mean there’s an epidemic of people spelling them wrong!”

Or even people spelling them wrongly (I may have to found a society for the preservation of the adverb). Sadly, OP, there is an epidemic of people spelling just about any homophone incorrectly - the number of people who write “Hear hear” as “Here here” on broadsheet newspaper comments is frankly astonishing. As to your “draws versus drawers”, I used to work in a school, and in the geography department there was a large printed notice saying “Please return all maps to the draws below.” In a school. I did point out the mistake, but nothing was done about it.

On the edge of sleep this morning, while still in bed, I heard a Scottish voice speaking on the radio. I heard a rhotic 'r' and I thought immediately of this thread. I can't remember what the speaker was saying. I suppose I 'dropped off' again.
I'm going to go and force a T-shirt into a drawer which is already full.

That's true. I'm sure it will get worse with the proliferation of online reading apps.
The standard of prose is far below that of a professionally published text. I agree that it is essential to be exposed to high quality Standard English in order to have a hope of mastering it yourself.

My colleague is from Galway. He's invited me for a pizza several times but never a peetz.

@WinterKitchen , you mis-interpreted @SherlockHolmes .
Her post was about her Irish friend finding it hard to believe that English peoples say -er and -a the same.

Yes, it’s the fact that pizza and creeper rhyme in English accents that confuses.

A lot of the rhymes in children’s rhyming books don’t work at all in Irish or other rhotic accents.
Using sofa to rhyme with gopher = 🤯

The other way around, Irish people don't pronounce -er and -e the same way, English people do!