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How do you pronounce PHO

How do you pronounce PHO

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guyver01

guyver01

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Was just watching a show about Pho 87

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shit looks good..

but got me wondering... how do you pronounce PHO
 
I've heard it as fah more often than not.

edit: And damn, those look good.

edit2: What cerpin said. I bet when you heard it out loud, it was closer to fuh than fah.
 
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Holy ginormous bowls batman!

In real life I say pho (fo). The proper way is more like 'fuh' from what I understand. I never actually say it this way though.

edit: there's a great pho place near my apartment. I love me some tripe and beef tendon. Good eatin'.
 
In Vietnamese with diacritic = Phở. In Vietnamese, they are several different types of "o"---o, ô, and ơ. The one in phở, ơ, is pronounced uh. So the above people are correct, it's pronounced "fuh". But that's not it. In Vietnamese, they are also tones. See that question mark thing above the ở? That means you say phở like you're asking someone a question. So when you say it, your voice falls and then rises back up (if you're speaking quickly, it sometimes just falls). These tones are important. For example "má" and "ma" mean two different things even though they are pronounced same because the tone is different (mother and ghost, respectively).

It has always amazed me how the mispronunciation, "foe", has caught on. In Vietnamese, that would be written phô. At the same time, I'm sure many Americans would be shocked at how badly Vietnamese people butcher English.

Source: Being Vietnamese
 
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guyver01 said:
Was just watching a show about Pho 87

5013474338_784cb79a81.jpg


shit looks good..

but got me wondering... how do you pronounce PHO
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what show was that?

and you can get by with making it rhyme with the question form of "huh?" sort of like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgX2q9WPoqo

but authentic vietnamese people say it a little differently still.
it is an authentic pronunciation at 4 seconds here and repeated again at 6 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJPP1oFzLLA

you can hear the tonal differences compared with the first link.
 
Looks very good but holy shit that is a lot of food. And I can pack away a lot myself. Most people would be sick if they managed to down all of that. 😛
 
Fah is correct. There's a restaurant near my grandma called the Pho-King Noodle. It's amazing what you learn.
 
blinky8225 said:
See that question mark thing above the ở? That means you say phở like you're asking someone a question. So when you say it, your voice falls and then rises back up (if you're speaking quickly, it sometimes just falls).
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This thread made me listen to the pronunciation on Wikipedia, and I was thinking to myself that it sounded like the guy was asking a question. Now I know why.
 
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