To think the poll is pronounced poll...

[peachypips]

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

You have now 😂

Well, not heard exactly.

Tole booth sounds wrong to me. English is SO weird!

Scone DOES rhyme with gone

No, it rhymes with drone.

This is a whole other thread, I think

Pole. No one says poll.

Pole - if you mean a polling station
Poll (Polly without the Y) - if you mean the part of a horse between its ears!

I think actual wars have been fought over scone. :)

Poll and toll rhyme with doll not dole.

I'm from the south east and have a very proper queens English accent.

Arkansas?

But troll, toll, droll are all pronounced like doll - not trole, tole and drole?

But surely troll pronounced like doll is trawl?

I say poll like polly with no y, also toll, troll, doll, moll. But roll rhymes with pole, droll, dole.

I spent a lot of my childhood in west midlands and Scotland so my accent is odd.

And is it electoral role, or roll

(Clue: where does the term originate ....)

Missing That's a weird one because it really does only work in an American accent. In a British accent ending a word on the "aaah" sound just doesn't work at all, and "aahkensaw" doesn't really sound anything like "R-ken-saaah".

"Making a bell toll(toll) takes a toll(tole) on you"
Toll is different depending on what you are using it for.

"Making a bell toll(toll) takes a toll(tole) on you"

But isn't it "toll" and "tole" ? "Ask not for whom the bell tolls" comes out different when I say it than "Ask not for whom the bell toles"

I like to ear my scone (groan) sitting in my toll (moll) booth and I won't share with the troll (moll)

Mind you I also say ale and owl the same as it just sounds the same to me.

South Essex (sowff) and East London childhood has a lot to answer for. I think I've stopped saying free for three...

I say ‘pole’. For me it sounds exactly the same as the word pole. Rhymes with dole, stole, sole, mole, troll, goal etc. I am a Southener so the vowel in those words is a diphthong for me (open mouth o into small mouth o). I think I would also usually end those words with a /w/ in place of /l/ which I think is a London thing. (Although I’m not in London or from London).

Doll, moll and knoll on the other hand, have a short /o/ sound for me.

Threads like this are really interesting.

Five My ILs are East Londoners and FIL says ‘ow’ for ale. ‘Steak an ow pie’ 😂

Yay 😁

I'm with you OP.
Poll, Troll, Droll, Toll all pronounced like Doll.

To pronounce Poll as Pole puts a very slight 'w' sound before the 'll' and that sounds wrong to me.

I honestly would have argued til I'm blue in the face that I was right on this and am amazed to hear us 'Poll-ers' are in a minority amongst a sea of 'Pole-ers'! Am very open to being wrong about this. Just surprised!

In my head, I am very clearly saying Toll bridge not Tole bridge so I am really surprised that some people are people saying they have never heard these words pronounced 'my' way before. I have a pretty standard home counties accent.

Maybe the difference between the two is so tiny that we all hear what we are expecting rather than how the other person thinks they are articulating it?

Poll to rhyme with doll. A polling station is a pole-ing station though.

People change their name by deed poll, not deed pole, surely?

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls" reminded me of this;

OED says toll and poll rhyme with pole, which is the way I say both words.

I'm Scottish and my partner is English and says Full like fuh-ll, whereas I say it like fool. Years down the line I am still as baffled every time it's said!

It's pronounced pole.

Is pole and poll not like role and roll?