318 PRONUNCIATION GUIDEis used alone. Vowels and consonants in the phonetic rendering are pro-
nounced much as they are in English; vowels with an umlaut-ii and o-are
pronounced as they are in German.
Korean. Vowels and consonants in the standard Korean transcription system
are pronounced much as they are in English, with the following peculiarities:
ae as the e in "they"
e as in "let"
o as the o in "song"
ii as the u in "curl"
iii as the i in "machine"
ch' unaspirated as the c in "ancient"
ch as in "chop"
t' unaspirated as the tin "stop"
t as in "top"Other languages. Words in Sinhalese, Khmer, Thai, Burmese, and Viet-
namese are rendered in a phonetic form. Two general observations:
a as in "father"
th as in "Thomas"