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Sodor is a play on the words south and "sudor", which means sweat in Spanish. A tropical island with a colony that extracts its resources using the available po
by ffhhj 3y ago
Sodor is a play on the words south and "sudor", which means sweat in Spanish. A tropical island with a colony that extracts its resources using the available power source: charcoal from trees.
- DonaldFisk 3y agoEr, no. There's a diocese of Sodor and Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Sodor_and_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Sodor_and_Man), and that's where Awdry got the name from. The Isle of Man you'll be familiar with. IRL, Sodor is the the Hebrides, Suðreyjar in Norse, Southern Isles in English. The Northern Isles are Orkney and Shetland.
- analog31 3y agoI just thought it was halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah.