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.
Er, no. There's a 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.
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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 power source: charcoal from trees.
Er, no. There's a 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.
I just thought it was halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah.