How do you pronounce ‘troll’?

[AmberLangslow]

I’ve always said troll with a short o, like in doll, but it seems more common to say it with a long o, like in roll.

So, which is correct? Or is it like scone and has two correct pronunciations?

👋 @Mumthedogsbeensick are you in the breadcake and tenfoot part of East Yorks? They’re the ones that seem to set us lot apart from the rest of the country and are really confusing for non locals!

Haha doll as in dole but dolly as Molly etc not doley

Doll rhymes with roll but dolly rhymes with molly!

doll and roll are the same here like pole and troll and vole and mole

Same here.

Roll no such thing as a troll

@AmberLangslow yes! Love a good bread cake whilst walking down a ten foot! I like chip spice on my chips and go shopping on road too!

Troll as in roll. I've never head anyone pronounce it troll as in doll! Maybe it's a regional thing?
Oh and I pronounce is scone as in bone, not scone as in gone.

Ok, well if you rhyme dolly with Molly, you know how doll - not rhyming with roll - sounds, even if you don't say it that way.

I say it like "roll" but got really thrown off when reading a rhyming kids book the other day and the word at the end of the next line was said like "doll"!

Troll as in trolley.

Would be trol otherwise

I had this argument with a teacher when I was a teenager more than 20 years ago. We looked I up the pronunciation in the dictionary and it said to rhyme with role then. (I was right)

I remember that everyone pronounced the ugly dolls the other way though

Rhymes with goal (just for a bit of variation)

Rhymes with hole.

Trole for me too, though I've heard it said both ways!

Troll to rhyme with roll or hole. In my accent, merry, marry, mary, berry, larry, scary etc. are all the same sound.

I also say scone to rhyme with bone.

Wow! These threads are always surprising.

I've never heard anyone say doll or troll that rhymes with roll before.

I say troll and doll with a short o, but scone to rhyme with stone.
(North Yorkshire)

Is it purely regional, or related to age? I sort of think 'troll rw doll' is more old-fashioned (perhaps troll rw roll is a recently accepted Americanism? Though it was always that way in the Billy Goats Gruff for me).

I find myself imagining that someone saying 'troll to rw doll' might also say pit-sa for pizza, which is an old-fashioned Anglicanisation of an Itlatian word to me.

Or maybe I'm babbling and it's entirely regional!

lottie I'm sure it is a regional thing. I'm American so usually nothing I say matches the UK.

I also say doll and role (and roll and troll for that matter) with the same “o” sound. I am struggling to imagine how they can sound different despite my google efforts. I have a fairly neutral southern accent (live in the south west in a county that people think of as having a “farmer” type accent)

@LittleYellowLifejacket I pronounce troll with a short O and trawl with a long vowel sound...

Does scone have two correct pronunciations?
It’s a Scottish word and the Scots say it to rhyme with stone, and they should know.

Plus, it's called a troll doll, so rhymes with troll. Short O, rhymes with sol

@Ohyesiam it does - I’m apparently firmly within the ‘scone-as-cone heartland of Britain’! They say it like gone in Scotland, so they’re probably right and we’re wrong 😉

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