Paddy wrote: > On Aug 31, 8:47 am, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 > > I say the 'oll' in troll like the 'ol' in frolic, and pronounce roll > and role similarly. > > My accent is probably from the East Midlands of the UK, but is not > pronounced. > If your accent isn't pronounced how do we know what it sounds like?
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