sody

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊdi/

Noun

sody (countable and uncountable, plural sodies)

1. (dated, especially US) Pronunciation spelling of soda.
   • 1889, “How The Meanest Man Got So Mean, and How Mean He Got”, in Joseph Kirkland, Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County‎^[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, page 81:

     Of course, Zury's sody-crackers went in with the rest, an' me an' Zury always ate some anyhow for appearance sake.

   • 1940, Sir James Elliott, The Hundred Years‎^[2], Robert Hale Limited, page 125:

     There's a gossoon in me company that did be workin' in a dispinshary that's after tellin' me that bakin' sody in hot wather wid put the comether on yer pains, me poor frind.

   • 2012 April 5, Lillian Beckwith, The Hills is Lonely: Tales from the Hebrides‎^[3], Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 112:

     'I'm wantin' half a pound of bakin' sody,' whispered Ally Beag with a terrified glance in my direction.