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Phon vs Pho - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between phon and pho

is that phon is a unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured while pho is a Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.

phon

English

Noun

(phons)
  • (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.

    • 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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