LOL I completely agree Ryan!

ACTUALLY, SERIOUSLY, I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT. I LEARNT TO SPELL FROM SEEING WORDS CONSISTENTLY SPELT CORRECTLY IN BOOKS. HAD I GROWN UP ON THE INTERNET CHATTING WITH PEOPLE WHO COULDN'T SPELL (ESPECIALLY ADULTS!) I THINK I WOULD HAVE LEARNT WRONG SPELLINGZ. BUT OF COURSE THIS IS NOT CONFINED TO BLOOP - IT'S AN INTERNET WIDE PROBLEM.

Same. The kids at school who did the best in spelling tests were always the ones who read the most.

Now they are teaching kids to spell phonetically - and oh dear. A seven year old I know spelt drawings as 'drorings'. Cringe.

HAHA - GOSH, THE NAUGHTY AMERICANS MAKE FUN OF US BRITS FOR PRONOUNCING 'DRAWINGS' LIKE THAT, YO! THEY HAVE MIKE MYERS PLAYING A ENGLISH CHARACTER WHO SITS IN THE BATH SINGING 'HELLO, MY NAME IS SIMON AND I LIKE TO DO DRORINGS'.

How else do you pronounce it?!

WITH A 'W', YO, NOT AN 'R'. EVEN SOME POSH BRITS PRONOUNCE IT LIKE THAT. WHEN THE AMERICANS SAY IT, THE FIRST HALF RHYME WITH 'HOW', AND THE SECOND PART IS 'WING'.

the first half doesnt rhyme w/ 'how' for me. draw - like STRAW .... ings. lol

BUT THEN YOUR 'STRAW' MIGHT SOUND LIKE AN ENGLISH 'HOW'. ;D 'STRAW' RHYMES WITH 'STORE' FOR US, YO!

Are you serious? I'm sitting here trying to make "straw" rhyme with "store" and I can't for the life of me. I must hear this! I wrote an entry a little while back about accents, I was going to record my voice and let bloopers tell me about my accent. But I never did, we must do this!

TOTALLY SERIOUS, YO. ASK ANY ENGLISH PERSON. WE USE THE VOWEL SOUND WHICH IS THE BACK-TO-FRONT 'C' IN THE IPA, YO. HERE. THE AMERICANS OFTEN USE THIS SOUND TO REPRESENT AN 'O' AS IN 'HOT', BUT WE ENGLISH HAVE ANOTHER SOUND FOR THAT, YO - THE ONE THAT IS DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH IT ON THE VOWEL CHART.

I say for straw, stror, for store I say stor.

I'm going to try to do a video entry where I saw straw and store, exciting!

How can straw NOT rhyme with store?! How do you say it?

I've done an education entry about straw and store!

Haha - educating the Americans on English pronunciation ;D

ACID FAIRY, YOU MUST MAKE A YOUTUBE TOO, YO! I WANT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE TALKING ABOUT STORES, STRAWS AND DRAWINGS!

AND EVERYONE ELSE, YO! AMERICANZ - GO DO AN ENTRY AND PROVE PUCK WRONG WHEN SHE SAYS YOU HAVE A 'W' SOUND IN 'DRAWINGS'!

Straw rhymes with rhymes with law to me. The "aw" sounds the same at the end of each word. I say the "str" in "straw" to sounds the same as the "str" in "stride" to me. So announciated out it is like Stru-awhh.

I have to completely disagree with this. The way I pronounce it, it comes out more like "drah-ings". I can't think of anyone who ends drawings with "wings".

Also, straw and draw rhyme, but they don't rhyme with how. They rhyme more with "ah".

Granted, this might just be in my part of the US. Go to New York or the South and you'd probably get a different pronunciation.

TO GET FROM AN 'AH' TO AN 'I' SOUND, YO, YOU'D BE MAKING A SOUND LIKE 'EYE', UNLESS THERE WAS SOME FORM OF CONSONANT IN THE MIDDLE. I'D SAY IT'S PROBABLY A LOOSE SORT OF 'W' SOUND. OTHERWISE THE WORD WOULD SOUND LIKE 'DRYING'. OR DOES IT SOUND A BIT LIKE 'DRYING'? SEE, NORMALLY, THE TWO WORDS ARE DISTINGUISHED, BY DRYING BEING 'DRAH-YING' AND 'DRAWING' BEING 'DRAH-WING'. AND TO GO FROM 'AH' TO 'W', YOU MAKE A SOUND WHICH IS LIKE A POSH ENGLISH 'OW' IN 'HOW' - BUT IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T SOUND ANYTHING LIKE HOW YOU SAY 'HOW'. BUT LADY ACID FAIRY IS ENGLISH, YOU SEE, SO I AM USING ENGLISH APPROXIMATIONS FOR HER.

I end drawings with "wings". I say the first syllable to rhyme with "straw" and then put "wings" on the end.

I pronounce the w

Do you actually say draw-wings? I can't imagine that!

Like a set of drawers with wings :)

LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN MAN SAYING 'DRAWING', YO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPt0l_Drio&feature=fvw

SOMETIMES HE SAYS IT 'DROH-WING' AND OTHER TIMES HE SAYS 'DRAU-WING'. NEVER 'DRORING' THOUGH.

HE SAYS 'SUMPLE' FOR 'SIMPLE' TOO. AND 'THE YEAR' FOR 'THE EAR'.

I pronounce it with a W! And I'm not posh. I don't think Scots say 'drorings'. I think that's an English thing. :P