How do you pronounce "Drow"?

[Tuzenbach]

My immediate circle of players had always pronounced "Drow" as rhyming with "go". Then one day, I met a player who pronounced it as rhyming with "cow", which I thought was thoroughly wrong and hideous!

A year or so ago that Vin Deasil(sp?) person was on the Conan O'Brian Show and went off on some tangent regarding his "Specialist Mage Drow" (with "Drow" as in "cow") and I was horrified. I thought "Great. Now the whole gaming world will pronounce it incorrectly".

Anyway, how do you pronounce it?

 

[JRRNeiklot]

As in "bow."

 

[Nightchill]

In the various LARPs I've done (where there were hundrends upon hundreds of Drow) it was always pronounced so as to rhyme with "cow".

Edit: From Sean Reynolds "the official pronunciation (dating back to 1E AD&D) rhymes with cow. Or, "How now, brown drow?""

See http://pub17.ezboard.com/fseankreynoldsboardsfrm2.showMessage?topicID=192.topic

 

[Gez]

I pronounce it "drôh".

 

[ltclnlbrain]

'Drow' has always rhymed with 'cow' as far as I and all of my gaming buddies are concerned. I have never once heard it rhyme with 'go' (or 'bow' for that matter). That pronunciation seems weird and scary to me.

 

[Anime Kidd]

I pronounce it as 'Droe'. I'm sorry but I can't really see the 'cow version' as something to be feared. I mean can you imagine an army of 'em ready to storm a castle and and you look over the walls and say: "There is an entire Drow* army out there!" (chessy line, I know). Now if you say it as in bow (or go), I think it sounds better.

* as in Cow

 

[RithTheAwakener]

I pronounce it as 'Droe'. I'm sorry but I can't really see the 'cow version' as something to be feared. I mean can you imagine an army of 'em ready to storm a castle and and you look over the walls and say: "There is an entire Drow* army out there!" (chessy line, I know). Now if you say it as in bow (or go), I think it sounds better.

i completely agree. drow(cow) sounds weak and frail to me, whereas drow(oh) sounds devious(spelling ) and powerful..

 

[Snoweel]

LOL

It's funny how when the same old alignment/role vs roll/point-buy vs random arguments come up year after year, all the old-timers go to great pains to point out that "We've done this before st00pid!!!!!" yet when the "How do you pronounce Drow?" thread crops up nobody says a word.

And for what it's worth, Drow as rhyming with hoe isn't in any way sinister.

 

[Snoweel]

Drow, a deer, a female deer...

 

[Nightchill]

Not only has it been done before, but it's been commented on by the designers themselves (and the word's origins explained)