Troll

[Dollroll]

How do you pronounce the word troll.

Does it rhyme with doll or roll.

I may or may not have been mispronouncing this all my life.

I pronounce it to rhyme with doll.

To rhyme with doll

Roll for me.

Roll

Doll

Roll

Well, that failed. Hang on.

Right. I'll just do the whole thing again.

Troll to rhyme with roll.

Like Prof Quirrell

Troll as in the ending of ‘control’

Ahh haha, I pronounce doll and roll the same , like bowl, as in bowling or like dole.

Urm...

Troll
Doll
Roll

All sound the same to me

Doll

Roll

Roll

Doll for me in shorter whereas roll & troll almost have an extra syllable

Reading this thread has made me realise I say it differently for different types. So your classic, loitering under a bridge type troll i rhyme with roll. And your mean person making things up on the internet type troll i rhyme with doll.

No idea why!

Troll to rhyme with roll, bowl and hole.

I heard it comes from a fishing term called trolling (rhyming with bowling) where you dangle the fishing rod off the back of a moving boat trying to catch whatever comes by, a bit like internet trolls try to snare people with their made up stories.

Roll

Doll and roll rhyme for me. I'd say troll like the end of control as a pp has said upthread.

Rhymes with roll.

But now I've said it so many times in my head it's sounds completely weird and nothing sounds right!

Troll rhymes with roll

Trolley rhymes with dolly

@MummyDummyNow

Reading this thread has made me realise I say it differently for different types. So your classic, loitering under a bridge type troll i rhyme with roll. And your mean person making things up on the internet type troll i rhyme with doll.

No idea why!

I just realised I do this too!

Roll