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[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Erik Max Francis" <ma...e.com> 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_.
> 

I did not mean using a net to scour the seabed - Trawl,
I meant using a spoon to see what you can induce to strike - Troll

- Hendrik