To think the poll is pronounced poll...

[peachypips]

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

OrangeMan

The post was in response to the OP's post asking how to pronounce "droll"

I say poll, pole, doll, dole, troll, toll the same, but the -oll sound in polling I say differently.

@amusedbush thanks for the clarification. Thought it was a new word I'd not heard off

I would naturally pronounce it poll not pole, but I know that pole is the correct pronunciation. I'm a Londoner and my accent is "well spoken" , so I'm told.

How’re people saying doll as dole?

Never heard poll pronounced like doll before. Same for toll, with the exception of some relatives with strong Welsh accents.

Have heard troll both ways but usually rhyming with roll.

So how would you roll a ball?

Roll exposes a flaw in my own logic of my pronunciation.

I'm going to pretend to the males in my household that everyone on MN said that it was pronounced 'poll' not 'pole' and that everyone was laughing at them for thinking it.

Ha Ha! OP I love your strategy.

And let's all remember THERE IS NO LOGIC!

Surely it's pretty simple to sort these arguments out. Get a dictionary and look the words up. My OED says that 'toll' and 'poll' do indeed rhyme with 'roll' rather than with 'doll' and 'loll'.

Peachypips - relying on logic to deal with English pronunciation is futile anyway. What would you do about rough, cough, through, though, enough, drought and bought and thorough?

As in pole.

David Dimbleby pronounces it 'pole' every time he reveals the exit poll at an election. Does anyone want to disagree with the OED and Dimbleby?

Bollocks you are right Eolian.

Blow that David Dimbleby. And blow the OED. I'm right- I know I am in my heart.