To ask how you pronounce 'trowel'?

[ExitPursuedByABear]

R4 this morning. Two women pronouncing it to rhyme with hole. I pronounce it to rhyme with towel.

Have I been saying it wrong all my life.

Come to think of it, I probably haven't said it that many times in my life.

[SirPercyPilkington]

Rhymes with towel

[User100]

It rhymes with towel. If it rhymes with hole it loves under a bridge.

[User100]

*lives not loves

[Pointlessfan]

It definitely rhymes with towel!

[ShatnersBassoon]

Like towel, vowel and bowel.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Perhaps they were talking about somethign else. One of them did refer to sniffing her trowel before collecting them.......

[ShatnersBassoon]

People who wilfully mispronounce words really irritate me. They must think it makes them interesting or distinguished. My mum is the master of it.

[ShatnersBassoon]

Oh, they were collecting something. So probably not trowels as in hand tools. I wonder what it could have been

[ExitPursuedByABear]

The lady who was being interviewed had asperger's, and collecting trowels was part of her displayed behaviour.

I am now intrigued.

I once went out with a bloke who mispronounced penguins.

He didn't last long. Twat.

[TheRealAmyLee]

It rhymes with towel. If it rhymes with hole it lives under a bridge.

This ^^

[DinoSnores]

Did you used to go out with Benedict Cumberbatch?!

[DayLillie]

My local carpet fitters were laying the lino in my kitchen. It needed a layer of self-levelling stuff, as it was a large space with marks on the floor where the previous kitchen units had been.

They stood there looking at their handiwork and telling me in their broad local accents (and I have lived here 30 years so should know by now) that the "Troll marks" would show through... blah blah blah. And I smiled and nodded and thought "WTF????", whilst trying not to imagine these little creatures walking over my kitchen floor.

It took two days for the light to dawn

[FruSirkaOla]

Towel.

Pengwing???

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I wish!

Much to young for me and good looking

[ExitPursuedByABear]

No, it was sort of pengwens.

[Limer]

Collecting trolls, the little doll ones? Is that what they meant?

[WitchofScots]

Trowel is pronounced like bowel. Hopefully that is the closest a trowel and bowel will ever get....

[MythicalKings]

I sort of drop the "e" - Trowl

[Discogeek]

I thought they were on about collecting trolls, the little figures with the crazy hair?

I don't think she collected trowels!!

[WitchofScots]

Penguin is pronounced Pengwin? Or am I wrong.

[Sallyhasleftthebuilding]

Phonics sound is ow like cow.

[avocadotoast]

Collecting trolls would definitely make more sense!

[BitOutOfPractice]

I assume she collects things. Not trowels!

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Ah

So we are back to the age old MN argument of how you pronounce

TROLLS

It makes more sense now.



I still say troll rhymes with doll.

[diddl]

I do think that baby penguins should be called penglings!