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| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: c4757p on May 02, 2014, 03:45:13 pm --- --- Quote ---How do you pronounce soldering? - Soldering --- End quote --- Eh.... you say tomato, I say tomato. Wait. ??? With people spread out far across the world, you really can't indicate pronunciation like that. In my accent, I used to say "sod-er", but after hearing Dave in particular say the word so many times, I drifted toward "saw-der", which feels similar to my mouth without raising the eyebrows of my fellow Americans ;D Only one problem - when you guys read "sod-er" and "saw-der" above, you're still not hearing them in your heads the way I do, because you pronounce "saw", and "er", and even "sod" slightly differently. So what's the point? I used to say /?s?d?/, and now I say /?s?d?/. And since I'm sure the forum software made a mess of those... and . --- End quote --- You bring up some very valid points------this is what freaks Australians out when Brits & others allege that,for instance,we pronounce "Mate" as "Mite" & "Basin"as "Bison"! Of course,when an Aussie sees that,it reads like nonsense,because we don't pronounce the individual parts of the words the same way. Brits trying to sound like Aussies or Americans,(even professional actors) is usually hilarious. But what can you expect of people who pronounce "horses" as "horse-is"? |
| nanofrog:
--- Quote from: London Lad on May 03, 2014, 03:39:23 pm ---Maybe but we didn't 'invent' America until a long time after we 'invented' English so I think we have it right :-DD --- End quote --- Don't you mean a form of Medieval German that's been modified over the centuries, then later reinvented the languages' pronunciation after America gained its independence? :-DD |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: John Coloccia on May 03, 2014, 02:42:23 pm ---I think I'll find it's exactly as I said it was, at least as far as pronunciation and accent is concerned (which is what we're talking about). There was no such thing as an English accent until the English invented it well after the US was settled. http://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.html --- End quote --- I've heard about that before. I'm not sure how true it is and there's no way to prove it as there was no way to record sound back then. Received pronunciation would have only been used by the upper classes and while it's probably true some working class people tried to talk like that, it wouldn't have spread everywhere. In the north, most English accents are non-rhotic but they pronounce the a in most words such as class and pass like the Americians do, p-ass, kl-ass, where as in southern England we say p-arse and kl-arse. South western English accents are non-rhotic, they pronounce kart and smart in the same as they do in the US. There are differences in British accents in the pronunciation of words containing the letter U. In most parts of the England tube, new, and and tube are pronounced, t-you-n, n-you, t-you-be, except in parts of eastern England, mostly Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire, where they say t-oo-n, n-oo, and t-oo-be, although this is gradually dying out. In the north buck and book sound identical. There are parts of the UK where this gets mixed up, such as in counties where different pronunciations diverge. For example in Northamptonshire a mix accents from eastern England, northern England and southern England are found. Many people emigrated from Ireland to America so there are elements of Irish in US English. |
| rdl:
Sodder. A lot the family I grew up around was from Southeastern Kentucky. I still tend to pronounce some words strangely. Such As "I really need to warsh the car." The Chinese constantly use "weld" in place of "solder", they also like to refer to 7 segment LEDs as "digital tube displays". |
| Mr Simpleton:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/solder http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/solder |
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