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| Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?) |
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| IanB:
I'm not sure if it is true in America, but in Britain, "sodder" sounds slightly rude or uncouth (sod is an expletive), so it may be that British people moved away from pronouncing it the American way out of a sense of decorum? |
| TimFox:
"Sod" in American usage refers only to grassy lawns. I assume the rude British usage is short for "sodomy". |
| IanB:
I haven't looked up the etymology, but that sounds likely. It means a soddering iron would be akin to a buggering iron, which in the hands of the unskilled might not be too far from the truth ;D |
| Wallace Gasiewicz:
Solder is from the Latin "solidus" mostly referring to a specific coin, or something "solid" or make something solid, I won't discuss the verb Don't know the Sanskrit equivalent at all, I stopped all Linguistics study at Medieval Latin Here in the Midwest we speak "United States" not quite "English" ( not even "Canadian") let alone Latin. Words change with use, an Elm tree used to be an Elem tree, a pronunciation that is used only in one small part of the US. Goofy stuff, Language is. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: mcovington on December 20, 2022, 02:41:27 pm ---(3) Pronunciation adds the L because of influence from the spelling. Fowler must have observed British English before step (3) had run to completion over there. Step (3) never took place in America -- or so I thought -- but it seems to be doing it now. --- End quote --- I really don’t think it is. A few YouTubers who pronounce it wrong are not evidence of widespread change in usage. I mean, there’s another YouTuber who pronounces DOS (the old Microsoft operating system) as “dawz” despite getting flak about it in every video’s comments, but that doesn’t mean there’s a change in standard usage. (Which is “doss”, for anyone who doesn’t know how it’s pronounced in English.) |
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