How is pho really pronounced?

Fri Oct 19 00:36:00 UTC 2012

On Oct 18, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Michael Everson wrote:

> On 18 Oct 2012, at 23:20, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>> I've pronounced it every way I can think of, but I don't get the pun.

It's a Vietnamese place, specializing in pho, which in fact does arrive in a pot.  Vietnamese at least traditionally would have French as a second language and thus be familiar with pot-au-feu, as below.

LH
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-au-feu
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