To ask how you pronounce 'trowel'?

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R4 this morning. Two women pronouncing it to rhyme with hole. I pronounce it to rhyme with towel.

Have I been saying it wrong all my life.

Come to think of it, I probably haven't said it that many times in my life.

There was definitley a W in there.

I rhyme it with 'growl', rather than 'towel' where the 'e' is quite pronounced.

Yes it rhymes with Towel

The lady on Woman's Hour was definitely collecting Trolls and not trowels. Who would collect trowels (unless a builder?)?

Are you sure she collects trowels and not trolls?

Trolls are very collectible.

A trowel is a trowel...or maybe I'm missing something

Still a weird way to pronounce trolls.

I used to collect those hairy things.

Well I'm glad that has been cleared up.

We used to call them gonks
There is definitely a long oh in troll though, not a short o.

Troll rhymes with hole.

www.etsy.com/market/vintage_troll_dolls -

Here's a link, in case anyone is unsure what a troll is.

So do some people say troll, rhyming with toll?

Wait what? What else would troll sound like apart from hole?

troll ryhmes with hole
Doll rhymes with toll
Trowel rhymes with towel

And to be controversial

Buck/fuck/luck rhymes with book/look/cook

For me, troll rhymes with doll.

How the jeff can doll rhyme with toll?

Isn't the English language wonderful.

Did no one else here these two women on R4 this morning. Even if they were talking about trolls not trowels, they had a damn funny way of pronouncing it.

d-o-lll
t-o-lll

tr-oh-ll

To me:

toll rhymes with dole and soul.

doll rhymes with troll - or it did when I learned the story of the three Billy Goats Gruff! On the TV now I hear internet troll pronounced to rhyme with roll / dole /soul.

Troll rhymes with hole.
Toll rhymes with hole (but atoll rhymes with a doll).
Droll rhymes with hole.

Trowel rhymes with towel. I use a fairly short e for both.

I am totally confused.

I do think that baby penguins should be called penglings!

Apart from this ^ . This does not confuse me at all and I love it.

We say trow..well here in North Wales. The second part of the word is pronounced. same as towel. That becomes tow..el. school is schoo..wel.

weird huh

I say trow-el and tow-el too. I grew up near South Wales.

Gonks aren't the same thing as trolls or trowels

trowel rhymes with towel

troll rhymes with hole

doll rhymes with wall (kind of)

baby penguins should definitely be called penglings :)

Trowel rhymes with growl

Troll rhymes with hole like in the song " I am a troll and I live in a hole"

Troll rhymes with doll which rhymes with toll. It's a short 'o' not 'oh'

Trowel rhymes with towel.

And of course scone rhymes with gone