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Does anyone else pronounce "Soldering" as "Saudering"?

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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: wilfred on May 08, 2014, 05:01:36 am ---Just to contribute to this topic drifting further of course. I grew up with peanut paste and tomato sauce and now It is peanut butter and ketchup. I don't know if jam is jelly or biscuit is cookie. Why on Earth Aussie kids wear baseball caps (backwards or not) is a mystery.

In a global connected world it will probably merge eventually. In any case it reminded me of this episode of the British show with Stephen Fry, Absolute Power. The episode in question was Spinning America where the PR people had to make people like America and they tried to do  it by showing the people what the world might be like without the influence of American culture. It's a clever show.

This is the Episode on YT well worth a look.


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Then again,it happens on a smaller scale within countries,with a seeming urge to "homogenise"societies by wiping out regional differences.

For instance,it's always been Peanut Butter in WA,even though 'tothersiders try to make us say Peanut Paste.
When Fremantle & West Coast play each other in the AFL,it's a Derby,not a "Darby".
People live in ALbany,not "AWLbany"!!

When we go for a swim we wear bathers not "cossies"!
We eat Polony not "Devon sausage".

When I was a kid,we'd never heard of Street's Ice Cream,or "Aeroplane Jelly"(Jelly in Oz is Jello in USA)
It was Peter's for the Ice Cream,& Anchor or Lion for the Jelly.

Most people in the Eastern States didn't know anything existed West of Bourke,so we didn't get the invasion of ES brands.

Our Entrepeneurs in WA started throwing their weight around,& woke them up to our existence.
Everything has gone downhill since! ;D

I've never seen any Oz jam labelled Jelly,except for the old "Apple Jelly"from years ago.
Sometimes it's called "Conserve" which seems to refer to having large pieces cut up in the jam,rather than
chopped up fine.

"Preserves" are what your Granny used to make at home.

London Lad:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on May 07, 2014, 02:02:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: London Lad on May 07, 2014, 08:41:36 am ---Is 'mom' really a word ?

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Ask yer Mum!

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'Mom' is never used in place of Mum in the UK as far as I know.

Richard Crowley:

--- Quote ---Seal up your lips and give no words but mum.
Henry VI, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2

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I don't think Bill was talking about his mother.

In more popular usage (at least in AmEnglish): "Mum's the word,"

Slow Poke:

--- Quote from: Rigby on May 02, 2014, 02:03:11 pm ---US English: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/solder?s=t

"Queen's" English: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/solder_1?q=solder
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Dang, this is important.

Are you telling me, it's "Queen's English," not "King's English?"

Rigby:

--- Quote from: Slow Poke on May 11, 2014, 03:55:29 am ---Dang, this is important.

Are you telling me, it's "Queen's English," not "King's English?"
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I've heard it both ways, so I picked one. 

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