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Pho vs Sho - What's the difference?

pho | sho |

As nouns the difference between pho and sho

is that pho is a vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken while sho is a japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng or sho can be a letter of the greek alphabet used to write the bactrian language: uppercase.

As an adverb sho is

(us|dialect|south|african american vernacular english) nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation.

pho

English

(wikipedia pho)

Noun

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  • A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.
  • * 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations , p. 802 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816]
  • PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man,(SIC) a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.
  • * 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic , vol. 203, issue 3 [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/]
  • Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.

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    sho

    English

    Etymology 1

    Phonetic Southern US dialectal spelling of sure.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US, dialect, South, African American Vernacular English) nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (sh?).

    Noun

    (wikipedia sho) (en noun)
  • A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun) Of modern scholarly coinage.
  • A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase .
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