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Dollroll · 31/03/2021 19:55

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.

OP posts:
LizBennet · 31/03/2021 19:57

I pronounce it to rhyme with doll.

PerpendicularVincent · 31/03/2021 19:58

To rhyme with doll

Caramellow · 31/03/2021 19:59

Roll for me.

0blio · 31/03/2021 19:59

Roll

FelicityBeedle · 31/03/2021 19:59

Doll

Smurf123 · 31/03/2021 20:00

Roll

HamFisted · 31/03/2021 20:00

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HamFisted · 31/03/2021 20:00

Well, that failed. Hang on.

HamFisted · 31/03/2021 20:00
HamFisted · 31/03/2021 20:02

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

Troll to rhyme with roll.

Like Prof Quirrell

RunningFromInsanity · 31/03/2021 20:02

Troll as in the ending of ‘control’

AngusThermopyle · 31/03/2021 20:02

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

Soubriquet · 31/03/2021 20:03

Urm...

Troll
Doll
Roll

All sound the same to me

LarsErickssong · 31/03/2021 20:03

Doll

Laila747 · 31/03/2021 20:05

Roll

NoGoodPunsLeft · 31/03/2021 20:05

Roll

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

MummyDummyNow · 31/03/2021 20:06

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! Grin

DramaAlpaca · 31/03/2021 20:07

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.

ParkheadParadise · 31/03/2021 20:07

Roll

WeatherwaxOn · 31/03/2021 20:07

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

whenthebellsring · 31/03/2021 20:07

Rhymes with roll.

MummyDummyNow · 31/03/2021 20:08

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

Gingernaut · 31/03/2021 20:08

Troll rhymes with roll

Trolley rhymes with dolly

TooMinty · 31/03/2021 20:08

@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! Grin

I just realised I do this too!

RumpoleoftheBaileys · 31/03/2021 20:08

Roll