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Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?)

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helius:
The L in solder in the USA is obviously silent.
Nobody here has ever heard the word "sodding" or would have any clue what it meant.

TimFox:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on December 20, 2022, 11:05:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---, but there are many words that do get a silent "L", for example: salmon, almond, would, yolk, half, folk, palm, could, psalm, calve, walk, ..
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silent maybe,but in english english the  L affects how the word is pronounced.

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Even in American English, there is a pronunciation difference between "calm" and "cam".

IanB:

--- Quote from: TimFox on December 21, 2022, 03:28:05 am ---Even in American English, there is a pronunciation difference between "calm" and "cam".

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That makes me think of the "Mary", "marry", "merry" convergence, and wonder if there is any part of America where calm and cam sound the same?

CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: IanB on December 21, 2022, 04:04:58 am ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on December 21, 2022, 03:28:05 am ---Even in American English, there is a pronunciation difference between "calm" and "cam".

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That makes me think of the "Mary", "marry", "merry" convergence, and wonder if there is any part of America where calm and cam sound the same?

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My knowledge of American dialect is not encyclopedic, but I know of several places where the word calm is pronounced with little or no ell sound.  But in all of those areas the word cam is easily distinguished because the sound of the a is totally different in the two words.  In no place that I have visited are the two words pronounced similarly.

fourfathom:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 21, 2022, 01:16:48 am ---I pronounce the L in almond. I say ol-mond, but I've also heard all-mond and al-mond.
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Here on the USA west coast we pronounce it all-mund.  I think "ahmand" is an east coast thing.
And I go with sodder. 

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