Japchae

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/9/2012 05:01 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>The other day, I saw "jap chay" written on the window of one of
>those teriyaki joints so often run by Korean immigrants. While
>that's a sensible way to spell it to assist with pronunciation, it
>increases the number of spellings of the dish.

Does that actually help pronunciation?  I've always said, or thought,
"chae" as rhyming with "tie", whereas I would take "chay" to rhyme
with "(blue)jay".  Am I wrong?

Joel

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