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Chris -- 2025-05-10
My coworker has been emailing a cabinet maker who keeps writing “draw” where we would write “drawer.” We both mean the box you pull from a chest. We are in the Boston area, and I wonder if his “draw” comes from a local pronunciation of “drawer,” or whether “draw” is just a synonym. Any thoughts?
Last edited by mondegreen (2008-04-30 13:57:00)
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I see some eggcorn potential in this one, if the image is of someone pulling, or drawing out, the drawer from the chest. I suppose there’s no way to be sure if that’s what this guy is thinking, but that’s one way it could be interpreted.
When I briefly tutored classmates in high school, I had to meditate for quite some time over a ninth-grader’s essay that kept talking about a “chest of drores,” which is not an eggcorn, but a simply a phonetic misspelling.
“Let’s not get bogged down in semantics.”—Homer Simpson to Gary Coleman
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Isn’t that sense of “draw” etymologically correct for “drawer” as well? Think of “underdrawers” and how one gets them on—-
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Seems more like a mispronuciation (or colloquial pronunciation) than an eggcorn. People in Eastern MA are notorious non-rhotics. Also, I’ve heard many Southerners say “draw” for “drawer”. In Wichita Falls, Texas, they said “draw beer” for “draught beer” as well.
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Billyphuz, thanks for your find!
Now I can write a novel w/ a main character named Chester Drores!
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