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I'm from Alberta and never heard it pronounced any other way than 'sodder' until I moved out east here or, as they say, central Canada.
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Am I reading you guys correctly that you pronounce it "sodder", with the dental consonant in the middle voiced?
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Daily_ a temperate article on the rise and progress of telegraphs, asserting claims for yourself, and, as I must father the article, give the Vails and New Jersey all the 'sodder' they are entitled to, and a little more, if you can spare it.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831
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a temperate article on the rise and progress of telegraphs, asserting claims for yourself, and, as I must father the article, give the Vails and New Jersey all the 'sodder' they are entitled to, and a little more, if you can spare it.
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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A rather ancient Cornishman who worked in the Devonian TV repair shop called the tool a 'soddering iron', and an American friend from Boston -- I don't know his family history --calls it sodder.
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He had spilled his guts once, and this time Gord would get the whole truth out of the miserable sodder or literally spill his guts for him!
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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A sourceless voice whispered, "It was you that corrupted the lad, sodder."
The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984
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"All I'm trying to say, son, is it's not grief and sorrow at my wife's death that makes me sod things up — I'm just a natural sodder-upper and nothing's going to change me."
Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984
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And then he'd fix — you know there's a little hole right on top of the can — he'd take a drop of sodder and put it on every one of them.
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The thunder got broke on the road, and we have been forced to have fresh sodder for the two lightnings.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various
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