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View Poll Results: How do you pronounce "Troll" ?
A - Rhymes with "Roll" 29 56.86%
A - Rhymes with "Roll"
29 56.86%
B - Rhymes with "Doll" 22 43.14%
B - Rhymes with "Doll"
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Old 20-03-2012, 08:03 PM #101
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How has it been proven?

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Right, It's actually a word derived from Norse mythology, and the closest pronunciation I can find is this Swedish one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-ett_troll.ogg

Like Tron (the film) but with double "l" on the end instead of an "n".
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This is something that is totally reliant on your upbringing and background, so therefore there is no correct pronunciation. Even though A is the right way to say it.
There are regional ways to say almost any word imaginable. Then there is the correct way.
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Grammatically it must be B as the present tense is pronounced trolling not 'trole'ing?
Obviously people who pronounce it like A say Troleing - I know I do

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I'm not sure exactly. She said it was countryside. It was a relationship that burned bright and fizzled out quickly. We didn't spend a lot of time discussing each others backgrounds. She was really lovely though, and I could have listened to her voice forever.
Yeah, sounds like a more county cork accent, mine is more Roy Keane
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Sounds like Option A to me, and why is this 100% right?
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Seems likely to me that the Swedes have got it wrong
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Swedes are just taking the piss out of Jesus if you ask me
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this guy has the right idea

http://audioboo.fm/boos/39460-how-to-pronounce-troll
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Troll thread tbh. Roll and doll still rhyme
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Obviously people who pronounce it like A say Troleing - I know I do



Yeah, sounds like a more county cork accent, mine is more Roy Keane
Stick it up yer bollix?

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A is correct http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/troll?s=t
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But we're not norwegians, so why should we say it like they do.
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How would you say Grand prix?

..........I'm not French so it should be "Grand pricks".

There are loads of examples of foreign words we use. You can say it however you want, but the correct way will be different.

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A sounds like Trawl

B ftw
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Glad to see A is winning, and rightly so.
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Its the posh and the irish! down with that sorta thing....Mind how you go.....
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I say A as afterall you pronounce Trolls in The Billy Goats Gruff as Trolles.
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How would you say Grand prix?

..........I'm not French so it should be "Grand pricks".
There are loads of examples of foreign words we use. You can say it however you want, but the correct way will be different.

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Funnily enough I sometimes say that.
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Troll thread tbh. Roll and doll still rhyme
No they don't :S
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they do, my daughter once started crying at school cos someone said jim and jam rhymed.....hahaha, bless her
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I pronounce it troll.
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