gaol
How is this pronounced, and is it any different to saying/typing jail?
Genuine question, often wondered why and just assumed it was an old word as it’s usually applied to old jails, but some people still use it.
Biddons/Water bottles, tomato/tomato?
Pronounced exactly the same. Gaol is the ‘correct’ / original spelling of it, Jail would be the more ‘modern’ / US version, like taking the ‘u’ out of Colour, it’s ‘wrong’ but more phonetically correct.
I’m not sure which is taught in Schools in the UK now, but when I was in school in the 80s it was ‘Gaol’ which was a nightmare for a Dyslexic like me who read, and said it as Goal – Jail or Gaol should never be your Goal in life as my teacher used to say.