A brazen attack -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Burke Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 7:14 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Group Consensus - Pronunciation of "Solder" 2 Chronicles 18:33Now a certain man drew the bow {at random} and struck the king of Israel between the soldering of [his] breastplate armor. Then he said to the chariot driver, "{Turn around}; get me away from the [war] camp, for I am wounded." Lol Sent from my iPad Pro On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:10 PM +0700, "Dwight Mattix" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Saw-der. West Coast and NavAir background -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 7:07 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Group Consensus - Pronunciation of "Solder" Ron, It depends on where you are. In the US, I have always heard and used SODer (L silent). Whenever I have been in the UK it has been Sol-der (L not silent). Doug Pauls Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Ron Feyereisen < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi TechNeters! Some light-hearted Friday discussion: > > I'd like to get a group consensus regarding the pronunciation of the > word "Solder". > > Do you say "SODer" or "SOLDer" > > I realize that it's certainly regional but I'm starting to hear more > and more people pronouncing it "SOLDer" here in the states. Is it due > to new people coming into the industry? More global interaction? > > A friend of mine who's not in the industry once asked me why we say > "SODer", since he thought it should be said "SOLDer". I didn't have an > answer for him and it did make me wonder why. > > Thoughts? > > Ron Feyereisen > Continuous Improvement Mgr., CIT > SigmaTron, Intl. >