To think the poll is pronounced poll...

[peachypips]

Not pole! Settle an argument between me, DH and lodger!

Def pole here too. South east.

Poll as in doll - it's the top of a horses head.

This BBC video goes with the ‘pole’ pronounciation

Eh?

I pronounce roll and role the same - to rhyme with pole.

Ditto toll - rhymes with pole.

poll - rhymes with doll, toll, troll, polish

pole - role, dole, foal, coal

Poe (Edgar Allen) - Polish

Everyone else is wrong :)

I think I say pole if it's a verb and poll for a noun.

Weird.

Pole. A 'poll' is hair - so a fine poll would be thick hair, often on cattle.
Yorkshire & Waterford/Arklow Irish in my family and we all say pole for vote, survey, opinion.

toll and troll and doll thyme for me.

poll = pole

I never knew toll doll troll roll etc could be pronounced in any other way than to rhyme with pole.

I listened to the woman doing poll and thought yep that's how i say it but then saw this and I'm starting to hear a difference between the two words. Though poll still doesn’t sound like doll to me.

Yes The Roundheads had polled hair as opposed to the long hair of the Cavaliers. Have a Google.
Trees can be pollarded (have their branches cut back severely), and some livestock are polled (no horns).

The poll is the part of the head on which the hair grows, so if you have a hair cut, you do poll your head. Think about poll tax (tax per head).

I'd say poll as in doll, but polling station as in pole.

Doll and dole are pronounced differently. Poll and pole are pronounced the same. Gotta love the English language.

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Just realised 'taking its toll' does rhyme with doll, but 'toll bridge' rhymes with pole.

Now I've just confused myself.

Is there a t in often?
scon or sc-oh-n?
lootenant or leftenant?
shedule or skedule?

I think I'll start communicating in sign language, yodelling and interpretive dance, it's less contentious.

Def rhymes with doll, moll, toll dueto a lack of magic e on the end to make the o and O

Never heard it pronounced any other way than pole...

@Fromage taking its toll IS pronounced taking its tole surely?

Trees can be pollarded (have their branches cut back severely),

Hmm - I would have poll like doll at the start of that word.

I think there are two pronunciations - poll to rhyme with roll when you are talking about the name of part of an animal's head, and rhyming with role when you are talking about asking a number of people their opinion on a subject, often political - ie. opinion poll.

@Fromage - I'd say often with a T, scon, leftenant and shedule - if that helps! Skedule and lootenant are US pronunciations - but as far as I am aware, offen and often, scon and scohne are regional variations within the UK, and both equally fine.

Wait... What's this about "leftenant" ..

@theEagleIsLost yes like bollard! :)

I have just learned that some English accents pronounce "doll" differently from "dole", which I never knew. DH tells me he's pronouncing it differently but I can't hear the difference.

Poll (vote, not horse thingy) and pole are homophones for me.

The only other -oll word for me that doesn't sound like pole is moll.

Dole, doll, troll, roll, poll, pole, hole all have the same vowel sound, and I think that's true for all Kiwi accents.

I pronounce troll to rhyme with pole also.
I'm a troll, foll de roll and I'll eat you for my dinner.

runs and hides.