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...Up until now, I still thought that. That's... significantly less fantastical, and I think a small part of me just died.
I'm so sorry. I assumed I was the last to know.
Fret not! Hang on to "draut" in your mind with the rest of us early readers. And when you need to say draft, just spell it draft. Meanwhile in the privacy of your own head, you can think, "I'm hot, so I'll take a long refreshing draught of this draft beer whilst I stand in the cool draught from the door. " We'll never tell.
In this drought?
Even worse: dialects of English that use draught don't use it for every sense of the word. A breeze getting into a room is a draught, but your first effort at writing something is still a draft
What about a draft beer?
Draught beer (at least in the UK). The board game chequers/checkers uses draughts too. I think the military calling people up would be a draft, but it would more commonly be referred to as conscription