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.

@YippieKayakOtherBuckets

As a noun, to rhyme with ‘doll’.

As a verb, to rhyme with ‘role’.

DH used to do this.

Less so now we call DD 'the Troll', he's picking up my way of saying both to thyme with doll.

He does still sometimes say (internet) trolling to rhyme with rolling though.

In my accent (South Yorkshire) roll, role, hole, bowl, and mole rhyme

Troll and doll rhyme, and sound the same as the first syllable of holly.

Trawl and drawl are even more drawn out than roll, role, etc, and have more of an 'a' sound.

Love these threads

I pronounce it like doll with a short o sound. Roll has a long o sound.

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

Doll

To rhyme with roll sounds very posh when I try to do it

Now try it in a Gemma Collin's voice 😂

@Pinchoftums

If you say doll and roll to not rhyme what other words do they rhyme with. Roll Hole Doll Mole Coal Soul All rhyme to me

Same here, I grew up in Kent.

I’m in the SE. Here, doll has a short vowel. Troll is slightly longer with an instructive faint ‘w’ sound before the l. So it rhymes with role.

MacMillan gives 2 alternative accepted pronunciations as does the Oxford learners dictionary (for non native English speakers). www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/troll_1

However the Cambridge dictionary gives troll rhyming with doll as the British English and troll rhyming with dole as the US version dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/troll. Unsurprising that there would be a certain amount of US influence as the word used to be very uncommon until recent years. But doesn’t account for the wide variety in colourful accents this side of the pond.

I say troll like doll btw and was surprised by southerners saying that roll, hole, doll, mole, coal and soul all rhyme. The Oxford learners dictionary gives 2 pronunciations for some words where the Cambridge does not. Perhaps I’m more Cambridge then? But I’m not from anywhere near there though.

Clearly far too invested here as I love hearing accents.

I say troll like doll btw and was surprised by southerners saying that roll, hole, doll, mole, coal and soul all rhyme.

Roll, hole, mole, coal and soul rhyme.
Doll does not.
In my West Country/generic southern accent anyway.

@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!

^^this

Very disappointing. By the thread title I thought it was going to be a juicy troll thread, and it's just about how to pronounce it. Oh well, I suppose that was the idea!

Like mole 😴