On Aug 31, 11:19 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: > > Erik Max Francis wrote: > >> Paddy wrote: > > >>> 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. > >> _Troll_ and _frolic_ aren't pronounced with the same "o" sound in any > >> accent I've ever heard of. Which you pronounce _boat_ and _bot_ the > >> same way, too? > > > [Amusingly contemplating a trolling war about the pronunciation of "troll"] > > > Well they sound the same in my more-or-less South London accent. > > I can't write those funny phonetic symbols (and I hate to > > imagine the Unicode encoding hoops I'd have to jump through > > to make them readable anyway) but both "o"s sound short to me. > > Like "bot" rather than "boat" using your example. > > Since we're talking... I'm still a little startled when I listen > to some of the excellent webcasts that are being produced these > days (showmedo.com and friends) and hear American voices pronounce > Python... well, the way they do, with the stress and something of a > drawl on the second syllable. I'm sure it's just as amusing the other > way round: we pronounce it with the stress on the first syllable and > the characteristic short vowel sound in the second. > (Something like: Pie'thun). > > TJG
The only true way of pronouncing Python (the computing language), is the way it is done at the beginning of Monty Pythons Flying Circus of course :-) Your right, the American way does make me pause. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list