peter > wrote:

> Sorry to correct your pronounciation. After conferring with my
> vietnamese friends, it seems that you pronounce the "o" in pho like the
> "u", only much shorter, in "burn".
> But then, it all depends in what country you are
> ...

This is close to how the local Vietnamese pronounce it, too. In fact,
it is even closer to the French "feu", perhaps not so surprising
considering that pho, both the word and the dish, is said by some to
derive from the French pot-au-feu, a hypothesis mentioned kindly by R.
W. Apple Jr., among others. He once wrote a great article about pho and
I would be willing to post it, if there is a demand.

Victor