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Neither, but closer to short. In US English, most words with -all have the AW sound (ball = bawl) rather than the short A (as in gal and shall). This is called a caret O.

So tall is not pronounced the same as in tallow or talent.

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"Tall" has a short vowel sound.

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Short

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