Excerpt from A Siamese-English Dictionary: For the Use of Students in Both Languages
As the aspirated 'form of the letter 75 does not exist in English, it seemed better to render the Siamese aspirated t bv the unaspirated English t, in order to avoid any risk that the reader should pronounce the t]: as a soft sound.
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