'Drawers' not 'draws'

I worked on a job share with a colleague, who always left me a note when she left saying that she had left the work in the draw, it drove me crazy.....every single day. When I left my work for her, I spelt it correctly, but she never did.
Go figure.

I did it the other way round the other day!

We do say 'draw' rather than 'draw-er'

My Oxford and Cambridge educated teacher of English said allright should have a double el.

PS My youngest daughter is a very good drawer.

Chester Drawers..

I have noticed this particularly with catalogues from auction houses. They don’t seem to be able to get to grips with the fact that chests have drawers, but telescopes have draws!!

Am I the only one who thought this was another thread from a certain male member

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrXqOI9988

In Scotland (and I suspect N England) we do say something closer to “draw-ers”

Yes Greyduster now you come to mention it I have seen it in auction house catalogues.

MawBroon coming from the east Neuk of Fife I am still guilty of that.

Thanks MawBroom. Enjoyed Flanders and Swann being rude.

No guilt, Charleygirl; I'm sure that's how it was originally pronounced. Though I suspect that had we gone on pronouncing it like that it would have ended up as 'droorers' (the things you 'draw out')

I blame it on we English who refuse to talk properly...

Baggs My (very old) English teacher used to make us write it as two words 'all right'. I expect that 'almost' used to be 'all most' at one time and I suspect that 'a lot' will very shortly become 'alot'...

maw

Oh Maw I had completely forgotten that!
My mum used to sing it sometimes and we thought she was disgusting! (we loved it!)

I hate the thought that the people who spell things wrong are probably thinking that my correct version is wrong. I have a friend who corrected my pronunciation of "thesaurus". She laughed and stated. "Don't you know it's Theosaurus". I should have told her that a Theosaurus was an erudite dinosaur but it would have gone over her head.

Like this?

maw
pensionpat my response in that situation (usually after being contradicted by MrA) is to raise my eyebrows and say in my best Joyce Grenfell tone ‘I think you’ll find I’m right’

Love that, Maw!

We have several murals in our town and another one is being prepared. I'm afraid to say it is usually referred to as a 'muriel'.

I am perfectly happy to “stand corrected” as my Granny used to say, but less chuffed when I am right.
So GabriellaG if you are reading this I did mean “whose grammar” and not what you thought it should be (because that would be “who is grammar “ and altogether too profound a philosophical discussion.)

I keep my ‘draws’ in my drawers?

Maizie. I have always written it as 'all right' although I don't know whether any of my pupils cared enough to do so. I wouldn't correct other versions of course.
and 'alot' really grates.

Singingnutty - Hilda Ogden had a 'muriel' on her wall in Coronation Street. She was very proud of it and often spoke of it!

So many on groups say ‘ I hope I m aloud ‘ it totally grates (perhaps I should say greats) on me and the draws/ drawers one as well