Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > weird this - maybe a native English speaker can comment - > when I pronounce what fishermen do - it rhymes with roll, > but when I am talking about the thing that lives under bridges > and munches goats, the "O" sound is shorter, and more > towards the back of my mouth.
Native English accents vary as well, but _roll_ rhymes with _troll_, not _trawl_. _Trawl_ would rhyme with _fall_, and _fall_ definitely doesn't rhyme with _roll_. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis I do not like work even when someone else does it. -- Mark Twain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list