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Apr 1, 2021 07:46:34   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
I've always pronounced "drawer" "drawr," but I recently heard a woman from Canada on YouTube pronouncing it "draw-er," like someone who draws. Is that pronunciation common in certain areas?

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Apr 1, 2021 08:05:42   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
I’m with the lady from Canada, though it’s a word I don't hear anymore. Your mention of it is the first time I’ve heard or seen the word in years.

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Apr 1, 2021 08:07:16   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Probably.

I pronounce it droar.
Rhymes with oar.

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Apr 1, 2021 08:10:28   #
MrMophoto Loc: Rhode Island "The biggest little"
 
I've always used the following; Your cabinet has a "drawer" or "drawers" pronounced as a draw or draws respectively. One who creates a drawing (with pencil and paper) is a drawer pronounced as you put it draw-er.
I grew up in NY, middle of Nassau county, Long Island. That might have something to do with my pronunciation.

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Apr 1, 2021 08:12:07   #
lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I've always pronounced "drawer" "drawr," but I recently heard a woman from Canada on YouTube pronouncing it "draw-er," like someone who draws. Is that pronunciation common in certain areas?


Might be a regional thing. Queen's English? I visited the Buffalo area once and at least in that part of up state NY they have no accent, they sound the same as (most) people in California. In some places especially the South they say Wash as Worsh or Ask as Ax.

I have a friend from Hong Kong and she speaks more formal sounding Queen's English. It is funny since she is Chinese and yet speaks and writes in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese (since she at one time worked there before moving to the USA).

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Apr 1, 2021 08:18:13   #
Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
 
Growing up in the South, and although I don’t have a pronounced drawl, I have it said as drawwww er a lot of times!

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Apr 1, 2021 08:22:55   #
dalematt Loc: Goderich, Ontario, Canada
 
I'm Canadian and pronounce it as "drore".

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Apr 1, 2021 08:33:30   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
dalematt wrote:
I'm Canadian and pronounce it as "drore".


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Apr 1, 2021 08:34:53   #
Delderby Loc: Derby UK
 
As King George said to my ancestors - there are two words those colonials won't misunderstand - "pay tax"

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Apr 1, 2021 08:41:50   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
I grew up in NYC and have always pronounced it drawr = droar

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Apr 1, 2021 09:09:33   #
Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana
 
I pronounce it to rhyme with oars.

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Apr 1, 2021 09:24:15   #
Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV
 
Are we talking about skivvies or the drawers in a cabinet?

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Apr 1, 2021 09:46:33   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Retired CPO wrote:
Are we talking about skivvies or the drawers in a cabinet?

Drawers in a cabinet,
but I pronounce the skivvies drawers the same way.
dr-oars/dr-ores

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Apr 1, 2021 10:38:49   #
JRiepe Loc: Southern Illinois
 
jaymatt wrote:
I’m with the lady from Canada, though it’s a word I don't hear anymore. Your mention of it is the first time I’ve heard or seen the word in years.


Really? That surprises me as I think of it as a very common word.

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Apr 1, 2021 11:02:34   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
JRiepe wrote:
Really? That surprises me as I think of it as a very common word.

It is...
There are
kitchen drawers;
file cabinet drawers;
tool cart drawers;
drawers in a hutch;
drawers in a nightstand;...

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