a friend of mine who's into fantasy art referred to drow (dark elves) this weekend but she pronounced it differently to me - so which is it?

1. 'drow' (rhymes with cow, how, now)

or

2. 'drow' (rhymes with low, throw, blow)


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The former.

I always use 1, although I could be wrong.

it is pronounced 1 ingame "the drow rule supreme" "destiny of the drow is to... (can't remember rest)..." ... etc

2 i use the latter.

Depends on where you earnt your stripes in AD&D circles I'd say, but I'm leaning towards the former - its what I've most consistenly used and heard over the years, going back to when a friend first drew me a charcoal sketch of Mr Drow'Urden (sic) in art class back in '92. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I use 1 when I'm speaking english and 2 when I'm speaking french.

I don't understand Cerebrodragon... I earned stripes in D&D over 20 years ago, and I never saw a pronunciation guide when Drow first made their appearances.

BTW, I always said option 1 (rhymes with cow).

I always used the first, that also seems to be Forgotten Realms canon.

Yep. Drow! rhymes with bow...

Oooh, can you guess which one it is?! :D

cow ;)