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Troll

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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.

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StanfordPines · 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

Yes. I didn’t realise before this that I can say it either way.
whenthebellsring · 31/03/2021 20:08

Same as control. Hole. Dole. Poll.

Scarby9 · 31/03/2021 20:08

When I was little in the north east it always rhymed with doll.
In my adult life in Yorkshire, I hear it rhyming with roll much more frequently.

gottenhaitch · 31/03/2021 20:09

T-roll.

nancy75 · 31/03/2021 20:10

I feel a bit like I’m going mad reading this, troll, roll & doll all rhyme with each other?

gottenhaitch · 31/03/2021 20:10

Troll to rhyme with doll would be trawl wouldn't it...?

JayAlfredPrufrock · 31/03/2021 20:12

Doll

I had a thread years ago asking this very question as I was listening to a radio play and wondered why they were talking about trowels. Although actually I pronounce that differently as well.

Cannot see how anyone can rhyme doll and roll.

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Dollroll · 31/03/2021 20:13

@DramaAlpaca

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.

Isn't that trawling?
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nancy75 · 31/03/2021 20:13

@JayAlfredPrufrock

Doll

I had a thread years ago asking this very question as I was listening to a radio play and wondered why they were talking about trowels. Although actually I pronounce that differently as well.

Cannot see how anyone can rhyme doll and roll.

I can’t see how doll & roll Don’t rhyme?
LizBennet · 31/03/2021 20:13

@gottenhaitch

Troll to rhyme with doll would be trawl wouldn't it...?
Not where I am. Doll is shorter, trawl is more dragged out, to rhyme with brawl.
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Dollroll · 31/03/2021 20:16

I can’t see how doll & roll Don’t rhyme?

Roll as in roll a ball. Or role if you prefer.

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MadMadMadamMim · 31/03/2021 20:17

Doll. Is it regional?

I've never heard anyone rhyme it with roll.

Rockdown2020 · 31/03/2021 20:17

Doll (I hope)

nancy75 · 31/03/2021 20:18

@Dollroll

I can’t see how doll & roll Don’t rhyme?

Roll as in roll a ball. Or role if you prefer.

Yes & doll as in on the dole?
Thebearneccessities · 31/03/2021 20:19

Roll

Choice4567 · 31/03/2021 20:19

Roll a ball does rhyme with Doll...

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Dollroll · 31/03/2021 20:19

Yes & doll as in on the dole?

No, doll as in the child's toy.

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YippieKayakOtherBuckets · 31/03/2021 20:20

As a noun, to rhyme with ‘doll’.

As a verb, to rhyme with ‘role’.

nancy75 · 31/03/2021 20:21

@Dollroll

Yes & doll as in on the dole?

No, doll as in the child's toy.

But you say doll & dole the same? I do anyway!
TheQueef · 31/03/2021 20:21

Trawl more than Troll for internet shenanigans.
Troll for small plastic toy/bridge ogre.

Choice4567 · 31/03/2021 20:21

@YippieKayakOtherBuckets but doll and role
Rhyme?!! I’m so confused

MiddleClassProblem · 31/03/2021 20:21

Doesn’t it depend on your accent?

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Dollroll · 31/03/2021 20:22

@TheQueef

Trawl more than Troll for internet shenanigans. Troll for small plastic toy/bridge ogre.
But surely troll on the internet is named after the troll under the bridge?
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whenthebellsring · 31/03/2021 20:22

Language is fascinating.

YippieKayakOtherBuckets · 31/03/2021 20:23

[quote Choice4567]@YippieKayakOtherBuckets but doll and role
Rhyme?!! I’m so confused[/quote]
Not in my RP accent. Where are you from?

‘Doll’ is like the first syllable of ‘holly’.