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.

Is there actually someone out there who collects trowels, or does she collect trolls?

Did I miss that bit?

It's that orange, Angie?

Trowel / growl / towel

Toll (as in bells) to rhyme with mole
Toll (as in toll-bridge) to rhyme with moll

Troll, doll, moll, foll(ow)
Roll, toll.
Trowel, towel, dowel, vowel. (2 syllables - trow-el)

The end.

Purple, orange, silver and doll. I think.

ItMustBeBunnies - I think it's a toll bell, but a toll (tole) bridge.

I agree.

Gavel. Travel.

How do you pronounce owl then? My DP says ow-el but I say it more like ow with an 'l' at the end.

It's been a subject of many heated discussions!!

Rhymes with bowel and Simon Cowell

Was the person on R4 feom the Black Country? They put random 'w' sounds in words when spoken. This might account for troll becoming tro-well.

This made me laugh so much I nearly choked on a bit of cake.

First you make these poor women have a completely fictional collection of trowels that they don't actually have, then you accuse them of mispronouncing the name of their completely fictional collection. They didn't stand a chance against you, did they?

Kirsty MacColl rhymes with Doll.

Owl rhymes with growl.
Trowel rhymes with towel. Cos they has an 'e' in, init?

Trowel rhymes with towel, bowel, dowel, vowel (when spoken).

Hole rhymes with, mole, pole, bowl, coal, dole, foal, goal, role, sole, vole.

Scone rhymes with, bone, cone, Joan, loan, moan, tone.

Doll doesn't rhyme with much, sol, moll, lol.

It's. OWL with tr st the front

st/at. sorry

Glad I'm not alone Euphemia! :)

Just to throw a trowel spanner into the works:

Anthony Powell pronounced his surname to rhyme with pole/hole/toll

Colin Powell pronounces his surname to rhyme with trowel/towel/bowel BUT his first name rhymes with trollin'/Rollin' etc

Beer and bear sound the same when I say them too.

I may have to start a trowel collection. But I don't think I need to sniff them first.

And they should have called those wild haired critters Gonks, then I would have known what they were talking about.

It rhymes with towel. If it rhymed with hole that would sound very similar o the male of my species.