Banh mi: your take on the pronunciation?

[rotuts]

Id like to get it right.

fantastic example in Bostons Chinatown!

[LindaK]

A good question to ask in the topic commonly mispronounced food and wine words

[liuzhou]

In Vietnam, the 'b' in bánh sounds more like /m/ and the 'ánh' like 'un' in southern Vietnam and 'ung' in the north. So it is like 'mun me' or 'mung me', depending on accent.

You can listen to both these pronunciations here.

That said these are the Vietnamese pronunciations - there is nothing wrong with Anglicising them as 'ban me'.

[Hassouni]

Yeah I've heard it as a sort of "bun me" kind of thing

[raybeezbabee]

most people order it as "bahn mee." the accent, ive noticed, moves. i usually accent the second word.

[liuzhou]

i usually accent the second word.

I think you mean 'stress' rather than accent. The diacritics are tone markers, not stress.

Bánh mì

Edited December 12, 2011 by liuzhou (log)