A Pho Pas? (Not so much)

I don’t even understand what they’re trying to do here…

(AA: As mentioned below in the comments, this is perfectly valid!)

By Readers Like You – July 8, 2011

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Bren says

It’s Phở. It’s Vietnamese. It’s not an apostrophe.

July 9, 2011, 1:09 am Reply
TravisL says

Phở is the correct spelling. It looks like they did the best they could with the english character set they had. I wouldn’t really call this apostrophe abuse. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F

July 9, 2011, 6:43 am Reply
Mark says

That’s how you spell the word!

July 9, 2011, 10:54 am Reply
Josh says

That’s how it’s spelled — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F

(That’s U+1EDF LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH HORN AND HOOK ABOVE)

And I guess if all you had lying around were an apostrophe and half a question mark, that’s how you’d create that letter.

July 9, 2011, 2:03 pm Reply
Dominic says

Aside from it being as close to right as possible, it is actually pronounced “fuh” so that would be a fuh pas My favorite place is called Pho King. Only a few of us get a good chuckle from it.

July 27, 2011, 2:28 pm Reply