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Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?)
Gyro:
--- Quote from: pdenisowski on December 20, 2022, 12:02:00 pm ---Yes. And even if it were spelled (spellt?) "Sottering iron" we would still pronounce it as "soddering iron" :)
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Unless it's a cheap Chinese knockoff, then it's a sodding iron in all pronounciations!
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: ebastler on December 20, 2022, 06:50:39 pm ---As a mildly off-topic addition, the German word for solder does not go back to Latin, but comes from a different Germanic origin. "Löten" (verb) or "Lot" (noun), which has found its way into English as "lead" (the metal).
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My copy of Duden's Herkunftswörterbuch agrees: "Lot" is from middle high German "lōt / lœten" (related to Dutch "lood" or English "lead"). It even claims that this word is either related to middle Irish "lūaide" or was borrowed from it (!)
Interestingly, the German verb "loten" is derived from Lot in the same way that the English verb "to plumb" is derived from Latin plumbum (that is, the process of determining a vertical distance by means of a heavy / lead weight on the end of a string).
TimFox:
As an exercise for the interested reader, research (or Google) the etymology of the pronunciation and spelling of the English military rank "colonel", which originates in French.
Circlotron:
To my Australian ears many in the US pronounce o as ah. Soder becomes sah-dr.
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: mcovington on December 20, 2022, 03:52:19 am --- The "sodder" pronunciation is actually older.
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The “sodder” pronunciation is actually odder. :P
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