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Old Aug 14, 2007 | 11:04 pm
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seanthepilot
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Originally Posted by Rampo
To my ear, the Thai pronunciation of Pattaya comes closest to PAH-tah-yaah, with the 1st syllable regular length and emphasized, the second so short it almosts sounds like an aspirated "t" (hence the occasional spelling as Patthaya), and the third syllable elongated.
I agree 100%, definitely sounds better with the shortshort middle syllable.
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