Wow can't believe how much activity one question can bring, and I'm getting a lot of history too, make it a lot more interesting.
When I was in England back in my Air Force days I was talking to a Chap in a Pub one night and he said we took and English language and butchered it and I replied that we took the English language and made it better. Boy did that get a rise out of him. Anyway after a couple of Pints we were friends again and we both agreed that the British beer was better than US beer.
Bill N7OQ
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Bip's" <louijp@...> wrote:
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> I have followed that thread and it made me laugh a lot. I'm a French native living in America since the mid 80's, so I have seen both sides of the story, and I have been an electronic engineer for more than 35 years.
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> America always assume that just because some do it, it is ok to butcher the English language.
> Even the etymology online listed before has missing info has the old french verb "solder" and noun "soldure" have evolved in France to become now the noun "soudure" and the verb "souder" while english use "solder" for both. Soldering irons (really made of iron heated by fire) were used long before electronic manufacturing, to solder copper pipes with lead for indoor plumbing (side note: plumbing derive from french "plomb" for lead (Pb in chemistry)), hence the more modern butane heated soldering irons.
> When I was a little kid, I remember the blacksmith making steel tools by forgeing them with a hammer on an anvil. That's where the "strike the iron while it is hot" comes from, as the iron needed to be bright red almost white to be soft enough to be hammered into the proper shape.
> I had never realized that people used "soder wick" for desoldering wick because "SODER" was the most known brand name until I had to purchase large quantity of wick for my job here in the US.
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