A difficult country!
January 10th 2015 You know it’s going to be difficult when people can’t even agree on how to pronounce the name of the country.
‘Lao(s) ‘, I had said confidently with the silent s until I heard others say Laos.
So, ‘We’re going to Laos,’ I said to the next inquirer. ‘Where?’ she said, ‘Oh, we just loved Lao(s)! And there it was again, the silent s.
It’s difficult to strike a happy pronuncia
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