Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:38:45 -0500, you wrote: > > >> On 01/02/2012 03:15 PM, andy pugh wrote: >> >>> On 2 January 2012 19:59, Mike Payson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Skillet/hotplate soldering works great for those situations: >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uov0SPHKcnk >>>> >>>> >>> How do you spell "Solder" in the US? All the videos seem to pronounce >>> it "sodder" whereas I have only ever heard it pronounced "solder" or >>> "sowlder" in the UK. >>> >>> >> That's cuz you guys in the UK have an accent and talk funny... ;-) >> >> Solder, and pronounced "sodder." >> > > Probably first heard of in the colonies from some village idiot with a > speech impediment who we gladly exported and became what people believed > it to be until the colonials "larned" to read :) > > BTW - How do you pronounce soldier? Why the difference from solder? > Oh, man! There are so many irregular pronunciations, one could write a book, or several! Yes, of course, the L is pronounced there, and I have no idea why. If you language is composed almost entirely of words borrowed from other languages with their own pronunciation rules, it gets messy. From Russian, to French, Chinese, all the other romance languages, Greek, throw in some Yiddish for spice and stir well, and it OUGHT to make one's head spin!
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