How do you pronounce "Drow"?

[Syntallah]

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

For those of us new to the boards, does anyone have that origin explanation? I for one, would be interested in seeing it.

 

[rgard]

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?

We've always pronounced it as rhyming with 'cow.' In French, the word for Drow is 'Drache' which rhymes with 'Vache', the French word for cow.

"Fetchez la vache!"

 

[glass]

I have never once heard it rhyme with 'go' (or 'bow' for that matter).

Apparently, it is pronounced 'wooooosh'!

That pronunciation seems weird and scary to me.

Aren't drow supposed to be weird and scary?

glass.

 

[glass]

I answered 'both ways'. I always assumed it was drowgo, until I found out that it is officially drowcow. At first I didn't like it, but now I am just guided by whoever is DMing. I pronounce it as they do.

If I am DMing, it is pronounced 'Jerren'!


glass.

 

[LizardWizard]

Drow rhymes with 'cow'. Period.
And it doesn't matter if 99% Russian roleplayers disagree with me .

 

[Trickstergod]

Drow as in "go" sounds too...Old English for me. A bit too subdued due to that. Not how I envision the race. It makes me think of humble plump monks or the like, of the sort you might find a Norseman putting an arrow into.

Drow as in cow, however, seems to flow better - it's more fluid. Which is how I'd envision most elven words as working.

 

[Hand of Evil]

For those of us new to the boards, does anyone have that origin explanation? I for one, would be interested in seeing it.

I think it is in the links I provided on page one.

 

[ironmani]

Oh and I agree with who ever said Salvatore has to be strangled for killing Chewie...

That would be me! ::high fives::

 

[Malar's Cow]

I pronounce it "overdone"
Alternate pronunciation "hackneyed"
Usage: "The whole dark elf focus is akin to beating a dead drow."

 

[the Jester]

Drow rhymes with cow, at least imc.