Solder/Sodder

[nq:1]BrE speakers pronounce the 'L' in "solder." AmE speakers pronounce the word "sodder." Sound file here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/S0545400.html Etymology: Middle English ... make solid, from solidus, solid. See solid. +++ Was it ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE, or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
I have

[nq:1]BrE speakers pronounce the 'L' in "solder." AmE speakers pronounce the word "sodder." Sound file here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/S0545400.html Etymology: Middle English ... make solid, from solidus, solid. See solid. +++ Was it ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE, or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
In Scot

[nq:1]BrE speakers pronounce the 'L' in "solder." AmE speakers pronounce the word "sodder." Sound file here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/S0545400.html Etymology: Middle English ... make solid, from solidus, solid. See solid. +++ Was it ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE, or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
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[nq:1]I have been brazing and soldering for some sixty years and have never heard it called soddering in either the RAF or in teaching.[/nq]
I have. I was in the RAF as an Air Radar Fitter from 1959 to 1963, and in 1961 I was sent to RAF Feltwell to be assistant to a guy (whose name I'm afraid I cannot recall) from North American Aircraft who was installing a Thor missile launch simulator and

[nq:1]BrE speakers pronounce the 'L' in "solder." AmE speakers pronounce the word "sodder." Sound file here: http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/S0545400.html Etymology: Middle English ... make solid, from solidus, solid. See solid. +++ Was it ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE, or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
I can't

[nq:1]Was it ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE,[/nq]
Yes, and also with a long o but no l (which is what the OED gives as the secondary British pronunciation).
[nq:1]or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
Not that I have heard.
The switchover to pronouncing the l or lengthening the o in Britain seems to have happened within the 20th century. Fowler, in the original MEU (1927), says
The only

Here in the US, "sod" means turf, and has nothing to do with sodomites, for which we have a lot of colorful alternatives.

[nq:1]I can't say that it was ever pronounced "solder" in the US, but I was a US Navy trained solderer, ... "sodder". I have yet to hear anyone pronounce it "solder", even by people who do not know how to solder.[/nq]
I pronounce it "solder" (Toronto). "Sodder" sounds like something a plumber would say.
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[nq:2]I can't say that it was ever pronounced "solder" in ... even by people who do not know how to solder.[/nq]
[nq:1]I pronounce it "solder" (Toronto). "Sodder" sounds like something a plumber would say.[/nq]
Yeah, that makes sense. A plumber would always mispronounce something he uses every day.

[nq:2]BrE speakers pronounce the 'L' in "solder." AmE speakers pronounce ... ever pronounced "sodder" in BrE, or as "solder" in AmE?[/nq]
[nq:1]In Scottish English, quite likely. Soldier is pronounced sodjer. m.[/nq]
Yes, but that's sewjur (sew being as per needle and thread), isn't it? Sodder is pronounced, er, sod-er (sod being as per Sodom).

I've always pronounced it the Englis