Word: phya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Phya Phahon Phon Phayuhasena, 60, moonfaced, swashbuckling onetime strong man of Siam, leader of the 1933 coup d'etat which eventually resulted in the abdication of the late King Prajadhipok, for five years premier and dictator, briefly in 1941 a yellow-robed, Buddhist beggar-monk; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...
...this particular case concerning the name of our former Premier mentioned in TIME, it happens that it is pronounced exactly as it is spelt, namely Phya Bahol...
Reading through page 21 of TIME, Aug. 4, 1941, I came across the name of my ex-Premier-Phya Bahol-with your pronunciation as "Peeya B'hoo'" which is wrong...
...case you may be interested to know, his full name is Major General Phya Baholpolapayuhasena-pronounced...
Before a foot or wheel had touched the ground, the well-drilled Japanese Foreign Office had turned its attention to the campaign's next objective, Thailand (whose biggest politico, Major General Phya Bahol-pronounced Peeya B'hoon-last month hastily took the non-political yellow robe of a lama, entered a monastery). It looked, said the Foreign Office's Tokyo newspaper, as though Thailand would need the strong helping hand of an outside country to keep the British from disrupting "the good relationship that has developed between Japan and Thailand...