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In the same vein, how do you pronounce DRAWING?

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castille · 24/04/2008 11:34

Draw- ring

or

Draw- ing (no R sound before the ING)

It's a pendatometer test

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BillyElliot · 24/04/2008 11:35

draw - ing i have never heard the other

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Flame · 24/04/2008 11:36

I have now said both about 20 times.

I have absolutely no idea!

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MrsBadger · 24/04/2008 11:36

if I am thinking about it I do the latter

but I suspect the former slips out many times unobserved

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ZoeC · 24/04/2008 11:36

Draw-ring (had to say it aloud a couple of times to work out how I DO say it though!)

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SheikYerbouti · 24/04/2008 11:36

The latter

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YouCantTeuchThis · 24/04/2008 11:37

the latter.

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CatIsSleepy · 24/04/2008 11:38

what flame said

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cyteen · 24/04/2008 11:38

droring

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QueenTaLcY · 24/04/2008 11:39

draw ring

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fishie · 24/04/2008 11:40

yes draw-ing me too. what is a pandatometer?

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MascaraOHara · 24/04/2008 11:43

dror-ring

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QueenTaLcY · 24/04/2008 11:44

changed my mind...dror ring here too.

I think

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Poledra · 24/04/2008 11:48

Draw-ing. There isn't a second 'r' there, so why pronounce it? (Used to drive my Scottish mother mad when English TV presenters added the extra 'r' ).

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egypt · 24/04/2008 11:50

how on earth do you say it WITHOUT saying ring at the end. you would have to briefly pause after draw before saying ing, surely. when they run together 'aw' and 'ing' would automatically become drawring.

unless you are jonathan ross

draw wing

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MascaraOHara · 24/04/2008 11:52

or ming-ming lol

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CountessDracula · 24/04/2008 11:52

Draw-ing

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WideWebWitch · 24/04/2008 11:53

draw ing

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castille · 24/04/2008 11:54

pedantometer = measure of how pedantic you are

The proper pronunciation is draw-ing, so I was gently informed by my English teacher great aunt when I was about 7.

Practise is needed to get it right! No wings allowed.

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quickdrawmcgraw · 24/04/2008 11:58

Draw-ring?!!
dd slags ds off all the time because he pronounces it like that.

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cyteen · 24/04/2008 11:59

Poledra, it's just my accent, same as why I pronounce 'grass' as 'grarse'

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CountessDracula · 24/04/2008 12:00

how about Wednesday

I pronounce it Weddensday (with a sort of glottaly thing on the first dd)

I have heard a lot of Wens-day

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cyteen · 24/04/2008 12:00

Wensday here

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littlelapin · 24/04/2008 12:02

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ZoeC · 24/04/2008 12:03

Wensday. And grarse.

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QueenTaLcY · 24/04/2008 12:05

wensday and februairy

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