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On the other hand, I do know that there's a Vale of Bee-vah, that
horses go round the Dah-bee and that Berks live in Bark-shar (all
of which are pronounced in a terribly un-British way over here).
And if there was an Arabic influence on Quy, it'd come out Guy
(like guide), or with French influence: Ghee (like glee, key, we,
etc).

None of the above. It's pronounced like the bridge over the river.

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Colin Rosenstiel

The one in Burma (or whatever name is in use today by the regime to identify
the place and people it oppresses), rendered "Kwai" in most (albeit 30+
years past) occasions I've seen reference to it? I s'pose Quy conveys the
same sense, but less unambiguously..

But haven't we taken this far enough off topic, after all it isn't
uk.colony.railway or japan.oppressors.slavelabour.railway.bridges G

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