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Not sure what you mean by this. This is the name in Thai and "ผัดไทย" ([pʰàt tʰāj] in IPA) is what is written on shops and carts where it's sold. The vowel in
by mdturnerphys 7y ago
Not sure what you mean by this. This is the name in Thai and "ผัดไทย" ([pʰàt tʰāj] in IPA) is what is written on shops and carts where it's sold.
The vowel in "pad" is in between the two options given in the question above. Unlike English, where accents primarily change the vowels, vowels stay quite constant across accents in Thai.
- rnicholus 7y agoI mean that I’ve heard either pronunciation. And when addressing to English native speakers, the pronunciation may not be connected to local custom...
- jdmichal 7y agoThe /a/ in Thai is a central vowel. This is different than English /a/, which is a front vowel. And /o/ is the open back vowel. That is why it falls between English ⟨pad⟩ and ⟨pod⟩. And if you don't speak a language with such a vowel, any particular utterance will probably be mentally mapped to one or the other.