Roll vs Role: What’s the Difference?

Tom Wilkinson

Host and founder of Thinking in English, Tom is committed to providing quality and interesting content to all English learners. Previously a research student at a top Japanese university and with a background in English teaching, political research, and Asian languages, Tom is now working fulltime on bettering Thinking in English!

Sometimes English vocabulary can be very confusing! Often words, phrases, and terms can have identical pronunciations or be written similarly, but have drastically different meaning.

So I made this post to make things a little clear!

Roll vs Role?? Do you know the difference?

Do you know the difference between role and roll?

Try using this vocabulary to make some sentences in the comments!

2 thoughts on “Roll vs Role: What’s the Difference?”

Auntie Carol says:

21st October 2023 at 2:25 am

Hi Tom,
I stumbled upon your podcast yesterday and YES! At long last I have found one about learning English that has what I have been looking for.
Believe me when I say I have tried listening to quite a lot and TBH I am solely interested in the British ones cos I am an anglophile, and I am all for the British accent.
Your contents esp the vocab and the length of @episode are just what I like. BTW I run an Eng workshop in Hong Kong and I am keen to keep myself abreast of what the everchanging scene of Eng learning is, so I read as much as I can on a daily basis to expand my lexicon, and I am so thrilled that I now have found you to help me grow 🙂 Thanks and keep up the good work (yaye)
p.s. If you don’t mind I have many topics that I am interested in and for your expertise to cover them in your ” Thinking in English” would be great.

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