How do you pronounce soldering?
- Soldering
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

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...

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