Hi, Richard Miles!
I read your message from 17.07.2017 04:42

  BF>>    Yees Merriam-Webster. What about the proper British
  BF>> 'sol-der'?
  RM> There's no telling. Being the bastard child of several languages
  RM> American-style English never suprises me that pronunciations
  RM> can differ so much.

You can say, "Madonna is a great singer."
And it sounds equally with "Madonna is a great sinner." ;-)

Bye, Richard!
Alexander Koryagin
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