Anyone else noticed on U-Tube electronic videos that virtually every Yank can't pronounce the simple word "SOLDER" correctly?
Yanks always say "SODDER"........which sounds completely ridiculous !!!!!!!
For all you Seppos who are still trying to defend your BAD EDUCATION with respect to pronouncing "SOLDER".. ....try saying BOLDER; COLDER, FOLDER and then explain why you have to completely f*ck it up when you say "SOLDER".
First time I heard Z-80 in a US TV show (~35 years ago), our trs-80 user group wondered what a C-80 was :-)
But sodder takes a lot of beating, as there is no logical explanation to it.
Cheers Don...
Ahh to be fair we have a few eccentricities of accent too :-)
What about 'herb'? They drop the h... I cannot bloody stand to hear it. That's probably the most irritating seppo bastardised word for me.
Innernet has to one of the commonly used words today.
It is disappointing that they don't seems to also make the 'L' silent in "flux".
"yaputya"
** Ever used this product - used to be sold by Dick Smith Electronics.... Phil
Sounds like "sodder" to me. The L is silent - maybe you need speech therapy? :^(
Yeah, plenty of them when you think about it.
Your dictionary is defective
go away, troll.
Americans just f***ed it up and it has stuck. Somewhere along the line, a yank mispronounced it and probably due to geographical isolation (communication wasn't aural) the BIG MISTAKE was propogated throughout the entire US education system.
Try this sequence, Einstein... folder NOT FODDER colder NOT CODDER bolder NOT BODDER holder NOT HODDER welder NOT WEDDER wilder NOT WIDDER boulder NOT BOUDDER fielder NOT FIEDDER smolder NOT SMODDER now explain why Yanks cannot pronounce SOLDER correctly?????
Nucelar comes to mind. Drives me around the bend. Remember G.W.Bush?
And they play Goff
Sometimes
Nookular surely
They also pronounce
Hyundai as Hunday (the Koreans pronounce it as hy-oon-day) Mirror as Merr Error as Err.
Whitlam?
Fug?
Bush comes from TEX-ARSE, the last place you would expect correct English to be taught!! ("taught" will also confuse many simple-minded Yanks!)
not to overlook:
Mazda as Muzda Nissan as Nee-san
But credit where credit is due, they *can* say Toyota.
I thought Yanks pronounced Toyota as "Toyoda".
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