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Trolling or Trolling?

13 replies

S1ur · 05/05/2009 23:46

How do you pronounce trolling?

Does it sound like rolling?
or like trolling as in troll as in trolley?

hmm I realise I am not being all that clear....

is it a short 'o' or a bit longer....

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LovelyRitaMeterMaid · 05/05/2009 23:48

I say it as in rolling.

I think

S1ur · 05/05/2009 23:50

I think I am just being weird.

Sorry.

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 05/05/2009 23:50

trolling like Colin

See?

Molesworth · 05/05/2009 23:50

I pronounce it with a short 'o' to rhyme with 'lolling' - dunno if that's correct though

themildmanneredjanitor · 05/05/2009 23:51

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S1ur · 05/05/2009 23:55

oh good good

am redeemed

Was sitting here doing that thing where you say a word over and over until it sounds weird and you think you have forgotten how to speak.

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OutOfThinHair · 05/05/2009 23:55

Well if "Slurry the Troll Slayer" doesn't already know, what hope have the rest of us got...

TrillianAstra · 08/05/2009 11:38

Short o

TrillianAstra · 08/05/2009 11:39

Unless you feel like screaming 'There's a troooooooooll in the dungeons!'

MrsMuddle · 08/05/2009 12:04

Ah, but I'd pronounce "troll" like roll!

Trawl, to me, would sound like trolley.

I pronounce the 'O' in trolley the same as the "a" in ball.

Clear? Good!

thumbwitch · 08/05/2009 12:08

troll as in trolley, for sure, with the o in both sounding the same as it does in cosh, snot, bog and other troll-related words

is it more American to say trohll?

TrillianAstra · 08/05/2009 12:14

I think if it's under a bridge in the Black Forest or something it can be a trooooll (to rhyme with like mole). If it's on t'internet I;d call it a troll (short o).

thumbwitch · 08/05/2009 12:16

ah. do you mean the Schwarzwald in Germany? If so, then definitely Trrrrohll

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