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moonstone

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 4:42 pm

I have just seen yet another poster use the word "draw" instead of "drawer." I used to think this was an auto correct issue, but it happens so often that it's clear that many people really think that the word is "draw." Ladies, please stop perpetuating this mistake. It's drawer. DRAWER.

watergirl

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 5:39 pm

moonstone wrote:

A member here who has sense left used to type “shiver”. As in “sitting shiver”. It was weird.

saybesser

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 5:41 pm

Yes lol I get so nervous when people write/say that ...I thought it was an American way of saying it

sub

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 5:55 pm

I remember saying draw years ago in school.
Found this article. Copied parts of it.

“I’ve known New Yorkers who, despite exhibiting few traces of “Brooklynese,” pronounce “drawer” as if it were “draw.”* These are folks, mind you, who pronounce each and every other r, yet still maintain this r-less exception. So what’s with “draw?” ..........
I’m not entirely sure why New Yorkers say “draw” as opposed to “drore.” But I do know that “draw” is not really more peculiar than “drore.” Both pronunciations are exceptional, both slightly diverting from normal pronunciation patterns. To shift from one to the other requires that you swap one variant that doesn’t make sense given the spelling and etymology to another variant that also doesn’t make sense for the same reasons”.

Reality

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 5:58 pm

Yes. I have trained myself to pronounce the "r" at the end of drawer. But growing up I had NO idea that there was an r at the end of the word!

ExtraCredit

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:10 pm

watergirl wrote:

A member here who has sense left used to type “shiver”. As in “sitting shiver”. It was weird.

Sense or since? Laugh

ExtraCredit

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:11 pm

I would also shiver to sit shiver

thunderstorm

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:15 pm

And it’s not Yuntiff. It’s Yom Tov. So at least say Yumtiff.

watergirl

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:16 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

Sense or since? Laugh

Yup. Talk to text got me.

thunderstorm

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:16 pm

My grandmother was from an area in Massachusetts where they would say they “Sawr” something instead of saw something . So they did the opposite of the drawer -draw thing .

ExtraCredit

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:18 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

My grandmother was from an area in Massachusetts where they would say they “Sawr” something instead of saw something . So they did the opposite of the drawer -draw thing .

The R from sawr and idear should just make it’s way back into the drawer!

BH Yom Yom

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:22 pm

ExtraCredit wrote:

The R from sawr and idear should just make it’s way back into the drawer!

Yes! I was going to say the same thing about “idear”!

ExtraCredit

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:23 pm

BH Yom Yom wrote:

Yes! I was going to say the same thing about “idear”!

I think Dr Fauci is guilty of that.

oneofakind

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:25 pm

Glad I'm not the only one irritated.

NotInNJMommy

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:32 pm

I can accept one has a dialect such that they pronounce it "draw", but I cannot accept that they spell it "draw"...no. no. no.

bigsis144

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:33 pm

My mother pronounces “mirror” as “MEE-rah”, also losing the r at the end.

None of her kids follow that particular linguistic idiosyncrasy. We tolerate regional dialect stuff (it’s a New York/New Jersey thing), but don’t have to perpetuate it 😉

zaq

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:34 pm

It's easy to misinterpret someone who's speaking in an accent different from yours. One who hears New Yorkers, I mean Noo Yawkas, drop their final R's can be forgiven for thinking that the word is IDEAR. If brotha means brother and ahmy means army, it follows that idea means idear. And if YOU are the Noo Yawka, well, your drawers become drawz, whether they're the kind in dressas, or the kind you dress IN.

Years ago I had a friend who lived on Casino Boulevard. Not till I went to visit did I discover it was Kissena Boulevard. I assumed she was just tawking lazy like a Noo Yawka who plays the piana. When I repeated the directions and said "OK, so I tell the driver to make a right onto Casino Boulevard" my friend didn't correct me, either.

Another friend of mine of very long standing is from the Midwest. It's been so long I no longer think she has an accent--except when she does. She was telling me she has to wait for Don (pronounced Dahn). I was confused. Who's Don and what does he have to do with anything? She meant dawn, as in daybreak.

BetsyTacy

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:35 pm

The whole concept of people thinking the word is draw I have only learned on imamother...but..yuntif it is!! Of course that it is easier to accept because I don't speak Yiddish, maybe if I did it would irritate me as much as "draw".

zaq

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 6:37 pm

thunderstorm wrote:

And it’s not Yuntiff. It’s Yom Tov. So at least say Yumtiff.

Actually, no. In Yiddish, as in many other languages, an M followed by a T is pronounced like an NT. It's spelled Yomtov but the correct pronunciation is, in fact, Yontiff.

Not very different from the English "handkerchief". You don't call it a hand-ker-cheef, do you? It's pronounced hankerchiff, and if you called it a handkerchief people would know you for a furriner.

soap suds

Mon, Sep 21 2020, 10:08 pm

watergirl wrote:

A member here who has sense left used to type “shiver”. As in “sitting shiver”. It was weird.

That was likely autocorrect.

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