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.

troll rhymes with hole and toll

I can't see how doll rhymes with troll and toll

Scone does rhyme with gone :)

Archaeologist here, trowel definitely sounds like 'towel'! As for troll, I haven't dug up any of those yet but if I did I imagine they'd rhyme with 'hole'.

Troll, doll, toll, moll, all the same. It's having an E at the end of the word which makes the o into oh as in hole, mole, vole.

None of which makes sense though when it comes to the word scone

Bloody English language!

doll rhymes with wall

Can't think of any regional accent that would make this right

I would have thought that it should be roll with a t on the front!

Toll rhymes with roll for me.

Doll doesn't!

It was a mole that lived in a hole wasn't it, not a troll?

My DH pronounces it "trovvel". He says many things incorrectly, but I never correct him because his Greek accent is so cute.

Just realised roll doesn't fit my theory

Doll does not rhyme with wall, not even a little bit.

Doll rhymes with hole, troll, roll, role, dole, mole etc.

Towel is pronounced towl, just the one syllable and trowel rhymes with this.

Scone rhymes with cone

Scone rhymes with gone.

Troll/toll/doll/hole all sound the same when I say them. But then I'm a New Zealander, and we have the whole bear/beer problem anyway. If I ever saw a bear in the woods and shouted to alert my companions they'd probably think I found a lager pond or something.

Troll, doll, toll all sound like hole to me. I'm from Kent.

Trowel sounds like towel. (Pronounced as one syllable)

Trowel, towel, howl, growl, scowl.

Troll, hole, dole, mole, goal.

Doll, toll.

Scone, gone.

Tongue, bung.

You lot talk funny.

I ask again.

Doll. Toll.

Just wrong

It WAS a mole living in the hole.

When I say troll, it rhymes with doll and toll

Trowel and towel sound like growl.

Trowel. Rhymes with (Simon) Cowell. Simples.

I don't understand how doll sounds like toll. Toll rhymes with hole. Unless you're saying dole instead of doll?

Having given it some serious thought....toll rhymes with bread roll. My mistake.

Which means doll doesn't rhyme with anything. Like purple.

Ok I concede that I'm wrong about toll (just looked it up) and i do sometimes make up my own pronounciations.

I would say Trow-well as is "ow".
Troll rhymes with Doll.