Not being a poor Southern sharecropper myself, I do pronounce the R in “forward.” And while I don’t pronounce the T in “often,” it seems to be quite common.
D’oh!:smack: Well, now I know why I get all those funny looks when I speak of all the lovely thighs over here.
My grandmother used to way “rinsh” for “rinse.” I think it was common for her area of rural Arkansas. But far from making me cringe, I would love for her to be around still for me to hear it again.
I listen to an occasional audio book, usually narrated by USAians, this one I’ve noticed a couple of times recently: shone pronounced as “shown” - it that normal? It’s “shon”, rhyming with Jon, for me.
And speaking of Jon, the Stewart variety says “fo’ward”
Yes, that’s the standard pronunciation here.
I’ve noticed that some people pronounce “solder” as “sodder”. I don’t know why they do, it sounds very weird and unnecessary.
How else would you pronounce it? I’ve never heard it pronounced another way.
Opening is an oddone. I pronounce it both ways, depending on use.
Opening Day at the ballpark I’d say Ohp-ning Day.
But if I arrive at a closed store and an employee arrives with a key I will ask “are you oh-pe-ning up soon?”
Probably because that’s how it’s pronounced. I may be feeling a whoosh go by.
^ Probably says “tin” (verb).
I grew up hearing it pronounced “Saw der” and I still use that pronunciation today. It’s a subtle difference, but different nonetheless.
We’ve done “solder” before. And incredibly we had a small minority who pronounced it how it’s spelled: “sol” like in “solid” and “der” like in “bladder”.
And who were mystified to learn there are other ways to pronounce it. Wow.
Yes, that was my point. We have always pronounced it with the L. Why have a silent L in the middle like that? It seems very odd to me.
“sol-der”
I hadn’t heard that one before, and I thank you not for bringing it to my attention 
“Sodder” is the correct American pronunciation of solder.
Once we’ve got 'em to put the l back in solder, we can work on taking the u out of buoy.
Who is this “we” of which you speak, oh minority of darn near just one? At least amongst USAians. 
I think the “we” is not-America.
I am hard of hearing and I hate it when people will over pronounce every word they say to me , this made it hard to read their lips. I have no idea why some people think this is helpful to deaf and hoh people.
Like “salmon”?
There aren’t many examples where if you take the “silent” L out the word remains the same pronunciation (e.g. usually the L is a clear modifier: calm becomes cam, half becomes haf) but you’ve struck the best with “salmon”.
I’ve now looked this up, and it seems “solder” may be from the same origin as “solid” but was originally a silent L, and for reasons that may be related to the word “sodomy” the L began to be pronounced by the British to avoid prurience.
Or maybe not. That could be complete bollocky guesswork.
That may well be. I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, although I might have succeeded anyhow.
What nationality are you that the local standard pronunciation includes the L? Serious question, not snark.