Drawers vs. Draws

[Eve]

Haven't read the whole thread but I spell it as drawer or drawers.

Prayer to me rhymes with hair. lol

 

[JessyG]

Do you pronounce pear and pair differently then cause prayer sort of sounds like hair pair and pear to me. Gosh my head hurts

 

[babyv13]

I think mines is all down to my West of Scotland/Glaswegian accent ... I hate how scummy I sound when I'm around people who aren't local!

Some slang also really gets to me - my oh once called "windows" "windaes" (pronounced like "windy" as in windy day with an s ...) aaaargh! And he called "snow" "snaw" to rhyme with thaw ... We had words.

And as for pp who says draw rhymes with door - I don't get how that's possible lol. I have tried but my mouth can't even form the word if that makes sense?

... At least I can say loch properly though seems to be the only word I can probounce correctly!

I'm west of scotland/glasgow too!

Scottish English is rhotic, meaning we pronounce R whereas English English speakers don't (non-rhotic) - that's why a lot of people will write it as 'draws' because they pronounce it like that. whereas us Scottish people are like draw-eRRRRs 😂

 

[Eve]

Do you pronounce pear and pair differently then cause prayer sort of sounds like hair pair and pear to me. Gosh my head hurts

I feel a little stupid now

pear, pair, hair ALL sounds the same to me.....

 

[LoraLoo]

Hair pear care prayer all sound the same to me.

And nothing like drawers 😂😂😂

 

[Mummy May]

And whoever said mayor rhymes with prayer, thats because you say mayor funny xx

 

[Mummy May]

I'm quite good at a scottish accent though so I can see OP's point lol xx

 

[Kate&Lucas]

Prayer and mayor rhyme for me.

They both rhyme with pear for me!

 

[Kate&Lucas]

Hair pear care prayer all sound the same to me.

And nothing like drawers 😂😂😂

I've caused a confusion. It's just because the OP said nothing else has a silent "er"

 

[CRWx]

Pear and pair are the same for me! this thread is giving me a headache

 

[JessyG]

Hair pear care prayer all sound the same to me.

And nothing like drawers 😂😂😂

Too true

 

[JessyG]

Oh I have one for you!

Do you say fork and pork the same. I don't I would say poark but would simple say fork?!

 

[LoraLoo]

Pork and fork are definitely the same! Poark?! 🙈 lol 😄

 

[Kate&Lucas]

Fork, pork and poark all sound the same to me

 

[KatieB]

I keep looking at my bedroom drawers and thinking about correct pronunciation of said item, must stop coming back to this thread! Thanks to JessyG I am now saying "poark" out loud! I am saying it with a Scottish twang, sounds better than boring "pork"

 

[CRWx]

Pork and fork are the same! Poark is so much more fun with a Scottish twang

 

[vaniilla]

trying to say all these words with different accents is making dh stare at me oddly.

 

[KatieB]

trying to say all these words with different accents is making dh stare at me oddly.

It's madness! I waited until OH was out of the room

 

[Eve]

Pork and fork definitely the same.

 

[loeylo]

Pork and fork are totally different - I'm another poarker (haha..)