mayisay
Caleo, I don't understand how it's lazy to pronounce a letter that's not even in the word 'hour'!!!
I believe mayisay, that you and Caleo are at crossed purposes.
Having grown up in Scotland I took it she was objecting to people saying ou-wers instead of hours, pronouced like "ours".
And if that is what you meant, Caleo, I heartily agree with you.
What I find worse, and "lazy" is the "r" that is being said, but not written in words like "draw" and "drawing". There is not anything called a "drawring" in any standard form of the English language, although it may well exist in some regional forms.