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

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Sal Ammoniac:

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--- 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.

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Some American dialects, particularly ones in the Deep South, sound really bizarre to my West Coast ears. Example: "clothes" is pronounced "clays".

themadhippy:

--- Quote --- Example: "clothes" is pronounced "clays".
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sounds like glaswegian

gbaddeley:
I’m an Aussie that started soldering when I was about 12, in the 1970’s. Until 2018, when I started getting into YouTube electronics videos (Bob Pease etc) I had never heard it pronounced sod-der. I was wondering if he had a speech impediment 🤔

tooki:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 21, 2022, 07:53:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on December 21, 2022, 07:37:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: IanB on December 21, 2022, 01:01:52 am ---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.

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I've worked at companies that either use or produce ARM parts for twenty years and I've never heard anyone call it "A.R.M." -- always "arm".

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The thread was all about how words are pronounced in various parts of the world, if you noticed. So you'll be surprised how some words can be prounounced differently in different parts of the world, they already are within the same country. All the more for acronyms. In some languages, it is even unusual to pronounce acronyms as nouns. The world is a big place.

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Nobody disagrees with that in principle. But I’ve never heard ARM pronounced spelled-out in any language. Everyone says “arm”, with the exact pronunciation of the three sounds within varying on the language.

tooki:
I just made myself chuckle by wondering if anyone ever pronounced IBM as “ibbum” or something. :P

A funny, now largely obsolete acronym, is SCSI: only noobs pronounce it “ess see ess eye”. Likely apocryphally, some people early on suggested pronouncing it “sexy”. But the pronunciation that stuck, not only in English but also in many other languages, was “scuzzy”.

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