"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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
