Comments on: You say “sȯ-dər”, I say “sōl-dər” https://blogs.mathworks.com/simulink/2012/10/22/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d/?s_tid=feedtopost Guy Rouleau is an Application Engineer for MathWorks. He writes here about Simulink and other MathWorks tools used in Model-Based Design. Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Phil Taylor https://blogs.mathworks.com/simulink/2012/10/22/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d/#comment-2314 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:49:08 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/?p=1309#comment-2314 On the subject of accent, I’ve picked up this ‘solder’ anomaly in the last couple of years. Here in the UK the ‘l’ is vocalised, like in ‘folder’. However my American colleagues, and separately an American friend, all say something between ‘sauder’ and ‘sodder’. This caused lots of confusion the first time I heard it. I looked up the etymology and found it came from the Old French ‘souder’ from the Latin adjective ‘solidus’ meaning ‘solid’.

So I think in this case the ‘l’ crept into the spelling for us in the UK and the pronunciation followed, whereas the US pronunciation stayed close to the medieval. But that doesn’t explain why the spelling in the US has the silent ‘l’!

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By: Guy Rouleau https://blogs.mathworks.com/simulink/2012/10/22/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d/#comment-2155 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:42:32 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/?p=1309#comment-2155 @Mikhail: This is a little inside joke. The first time Jason, Seth and I discussed this post, both of them were talking about “solder joints”. After some time, I realized they were talking about the branching of lines in Simulink. I never call those “solder joints”, I usually call those junctions or node.

@Wei: 1. I am not sure if I understand properly, but wherever you move the gain “p”, the line will move to avoid being over blocks. 2. No. For a block with many input/output, it would be difficult to know which ports to connect when inserting a block.

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By: wei https://blogs.mathworks.com/simulink/2012/10/22/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d/#comment-2141 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:47:02 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/?p=1309#comment-2141 @Guy, Nice. I don’t have 2012b yet and wonder:
1) will a block move when it turns around a corner? For example, could one move the gain of p block in your example to the middle of its connecting vertical line?
2) could one drop a block of non-single inport/outport to be inserted in the middle of an existing line?

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By: Mikhail https://blogs.mathworks.com/simulink/2012/10/22/you-say-%e2%80%9cs%c8%af-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d-i-say-%e2%80%9csol-d%c9%99r%e2%80%9d/#comment-2137 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:13:05 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/?p=1309#comment-2137 Hi,

Quebecois / Canadians say “junction” instead of “solder” or you just uploaded the wrong file? :)

By the way, are there also peculiarities pronouncing “junction”?

Also, Google translate (http://translate.google.com/#en/en/solder) pronunciation is “‘səuldə” – i myself (from Russia) pronounce it that way. Makes me wonder why the correct pronunciation gives you that weird looks from your colleagues :)

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