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Message: <blockquote data-quote="einsamste" data-source="post: 1885087" data-attributes="member: 26580">drowyea i know.. but i had to say my 2 cents =Di wanted to respond to this following post from woodelf:However, that hardly is the whole trend. I was around to read pretty much teh first D&D use of "drow", in the drow series modules (or did they get mentioned in Greyhawk before then? i forget). It wasn't until '92 that i *ever* heard drow rhymed with go. It is only among younger [than me] gamers that i've ever heard that pronunciation (which is not to discount any not-younger gamers in this thread that're following that pronunciation, just that i've never personally encountered it). I'm actually surprised, if the trends of the threads on EnWorld are actually indicative, because i would've expected to see it trending the opposite direction. Especially since, if we're going to generalize about whole swaths of gamers by age, i'd expect the older gamers to do things like consult a dictionary--or be old enough to have read the pronunciation guide published in Dragon--while the younger ones are the less-literate and/or less inclined to care about the historic pronunciation or any weight of authority it might have.Here's a thought that comes to mind: anybody here who both predates the Forgotten Realms version of drow elves and pronounces it to rhyme with "go"?__________________woodelf-- response --Welll... i started playing dungeons and dragons in 1980, which is generally longer than most the people born that generally replied to this thread i imagine. i still have a origional red book, uncolored dice and pencils in a box. and no you dont want my old school opinion of the recent wizard of coasts ruleset. lol. ahem. anyways. =D So i guesse i count in your catagory and the exception from your experience (ive seen only the oppsoite of what you encountered). From day one me and my friends said it like 'go' and not like 'cow'. It had been like this thoughout my life with anyone i met until i head it for the first time said like 'cow' just a couple years ago. I cant change it its been too long. It just sounds wrong to me, but thats becuase its all i ever knew. Generally ive payed it no mind, and of course the matter isnt that big of a deal. But im just saying ive built homemade drow modules for over 20 years or written storys about them and always called them that. This is how i look at it though. I know Gary Gygax is reported as saying he origionally made it to be like 'cow' but more so i agree with his second statement that followed it doesnt matter what anyone calls them. Its all good. Generally most anyone that knows me and my background history that ive run ino recently that said it like 'cow' has every time changed and started saying it the way i do, just becuase they look at me as one of those old school kind of guys so i must be right lol. ah.. the respect. *grins*. Something now id like to point out that hasnt been pointed out, that though my journeys around the usa, i have ran into people that say things many different ways, no matter what the origional phrase was. Roof. Root. Hoof are good examples. Up north people say these words like 'ruff rutt and huph' while down south its 'rufe rute (as in boot.. striaght sound), and same with hoof (hufe). We can go back to the original origin and tell people its wrong.. or do what the dictionarys did.. and gary gygax with drow.. and say is either one and at this point its irrelivant. The dictionarys even added both ways of saying it to those words. So everyone wins cept the snotty legalists. =)Sorry for the longevity of the response, but i thought this was a funny topic and it was interesting. Also thought some folks might find it interesting to hear an 'old' farts version from the 'other' perspective.Peace.-Jason</blockquote>

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