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| Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?) |
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| IanB:
Ever since ARM was first founded in the UK I've heard it pronounced "arm". I have never heard anyone say "A.R.M.". Make of that what you will. |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: mcovington on December 20, 2022, 02:41:27 pm --- --- Quote from: ebastler on December 20, 2022, 07:40:55 am ---Since I deal with US colleagues a lot on the job (but rarely discussing electronics), I am curious: In the common US pronounciation, is the 'L' suppressed in all forms of the word? E.g. would you say "soddering iron" too? --- End quote --- Yes. That is the normal American pronunciation. The only reason I asked my question was to inquire about whether the L pronunciation is starting to pop up in America. Apparently so, and the obvious reason is spelling pronunciation (that is, people want to pronounce the word the way it is spelled) together with YouTube suddenly enabling us to hear the word pronounced by people from elsewhere (many of them outside the USA). --- End quote --- I imagine that immigration may have something to do with it - I say the "L" simply because it sounds better to me as it is closer to the pronunciation in Portuguese ("solda" or [s′ɔwdә] or closer to "saul-duh") @jpanhalt, sorry to say but I voted last election and pronounce the "L" :-DD |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: IanB on December 20, 2022, 10:16:47 pm --- --- Quote from: bitwelder on December 20, 2022, 09:46:16 am ---Do similar words like bolder, colder, folder get the same treatment? --- End quote --- No, but there are many words that do get a silent "L", for example: salmon, almond, would, yolk, half, folk, palm, could, psalm, calve, walk, ... --- End quote --- Even those words don't have universally silent Ls in all dialects. I pronounce the L in almond. I say ol-mond, but I've also heard all-mond and al-mond. My mother who's from Cheshire pronounces the L in yolk and folk. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: aeberbach on December 20, 2022, 10:03:41 pm ---We're just as likely to all start pronouncing it "weld" based on the AliExpress usage... --- End quote --- I think that's just due to translation software. I don't speak Chinese but I'm guessing they must typically use the same word for solder and weld, it definitely looks a bit odd though. |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 21, 2022, 01:34:57 am --- --- Quote from: aeberbach on December 20, 2022, 10:03:41 pm ---We're just as likely to all start pronouncing it "weld" based on the AliExpress usage... --- End quote --- I think that's just due to translation software. I don't speak Chinese but I'm guessing they must typically use the same word for solder and weld, it definitely looks a bit odd though. --- End quote --- Portuguese also uses the same word for both. |
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