I still can't see how "solder" becomes "sodder" ...

Oh, I can! That's just a standard 'skipped the key' typo compounded
by 'Fat Finger' syndrome. This type of 'typo' is one of the more
common ones in my repetoire of typos (e.g. 'remeber' for 'remember' or
'lokk' for 'look').

Of course, it you're referring to an oral rendition rather than an
off the page sighting,


He was. That's really how the Yanks say the word ...

Arfa



what I've just said is a load of ********
(unless such a typo was the cause of the utterance by the offending
party).
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Regards, J B Good