How do you pronounce Drow?

[MarauderX]

Like Goo, or Poo, or Doo Doo, or Motley Drue...

 

[Zaukrie]

Personally I hope that the next (or soon) on the set with 4E cartoon has a male and female drow on stage, and they pronounce it differently, and we see the real reason that males and females don't get along.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have always pronounced "drow" like "cow."

My fellow gamers have always heard me pronounce it like "can of whupass."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

How now, Drow cow.

 

[Tharkun]

I pronounce it the way it was meant by the designer.

 

[Ulrick]

Drow rhymes with Cow. As in, "WotC is releasing another drow sourcebook, continuing to milk the drow cow."

Now, a drow cow would probably be called a Rothe, the cattle of the underdark.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Amazing how new these posters are, not to know, knowing how many threads there are on the subject.

But here is the answer:

http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=219714&postcount=48

 

[werk]

How now brown drow.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

I, in full knowledge, pronounce it wrong.

I pronounced it wrong for so long that the 'correct' way to say it sounds... well... it sounds wrong.

 

[Tonguez]

I really don't know how
a 'menace' can rhyme with cow
and thus I refuse to tow
the line, and call them drow
Ya Know

 

[Mark]

(. . .) but years ago -- Gen Con 1988! -- my friend (who pronounced it to rhyme with cow) and I cornered Gary Gygax in a bar and (. . .)

Gygax in a bar in the 80s? Heaven forfend such a tale be told!

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

How do you pronounce Drow?

I believe is it pronounced 'Az-mode-e-us.'

 

[Aris Dragonborn]

I, in full knowledge, pronounce it wrong.

I pronounced it wrong for so long that the 'correct' way to say it sounds... well... it sounds wrong.

Ditto. My friends and I called them 'Drow' (rhymes with 'grow') for so long, that when we discovered the correct pronunciation, we thought it sounded just a little silly.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

"Meat" - 4 out of 5 crocodiles can't be wrong.

 

[amethal]

To rhyme with park self

 

[rgard]

The official pronunciation of Bulette is boo-LAY, which looks like french, as some misguided TSR staffer was trying to do obviously, but it's incorrect, as it would have to be spelled Bulet. As spelled, it should pronounced boo-LET, which is what I call it.

'Boo-Let' is how we always pronounced it. Some TSR staffer must have failed 9th grade French.

 

[rgard]

Back to the original question: Drow as in Cow.

The folks I gamed with back in the late 70's / early 80's pronounced it to rhyme with cow. I met some gamers in western PA a couple of years ago and they had been playing almost as long as I had and they pronounced it rhyming with grow. So gaming grognardness doesn't give an answer to this age old question.

It's actually kinda cool we have this discussion everything few years. It's a fun exercise for all, new gamer and old gamer alike.

Thanks,
Rich