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Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri Aug 31 03:47:36 EDT 2007


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_.

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