How do you pronounce "Drow"?

[Sejs]

"daemon"

I've always pronounced daemon in the same way you say actor Matt Damon's last name. No idea if that's correct, though.

 

[wingsandsword]

I've always pronounced daemon in the same way you say actor Matt Damon's last name. No idea if that's correct, though.

Don't know if it's correct either, but I do it too.

 

[Veritas]

Right off the Wizards website D&D faq... http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dnddefinitivefaq.asp

Drow: DRAU (as in drowsy; rhymes with now and how)


Edit: damn... Thorntangle beat me to it... oh well.

 

[Adlon]

Drow as in how now, and cow.....

If EGG's description isn't enough, how about R.A. Salvatore? He also says drow as in cow, and he said it LIVE on Mortality Radio:

http://www.mortality.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=75

 

[diaglo]

... how about R.A. Salvatore?

what does Bob know about drow

 

[Desdichado]

For the uninitiated, while their etymologies and meanings are fairly distinct, their pronunciations, at least in English, are identical. (Yes, i'm aware that the Latin pronunciation of "daemon" is quite distinct.)

The etymologies I've seen have both as the same word, from the Latin daemon and one is simply a variant spelling of the other.

 

[Mystery Man]

I always pronounced it as the same as "cow" But that was before the huge influx of drow rangers who fight two weapon style running around. I finally got so fed up with it, I banned all drow in my world. When asked by the Drizzit clone why, I responed that they had all left to go to the plane of the elemental forest to be rangers. No lie he asked, "Well could my drow be the only one who was left?" Ggggaaaahhhhh! I could almost strangle R.A. Salvatore for loosing the plauge that is Drizzit upon the D & D world. Of course I would be strangling him because he killed Chewie first.

He was told to kill Chewie by the head cheeses at the publisher. But yes, Drow are entirely his fault.

 

[Algolei]

The etymologies I've seen have both as the same word, from the Latin daemon and one is simply a variant spelling of the other.

That's how I understand it too. So does my Merriam-Webster dictionary (1974 ed.). My Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (1958 ed.) would seem to agree.

 

[Christopher Johnson1]

The etymology of Drow is from the Scots word Trow which is also the root for Troll. So, Drow should have a long o as does Trow and Troll.
It really doesn’t matter which way people vote, the etymology is correct and everyone else is simply mispronouncing it.

 

[RangerWickett]

Right, because language never changes. Ever been to Pittsburgh?

Drow hurt you. So it rhymes with ow.