Another set of items for the exotica files (link below), is a set of documents held in the national Archives of Japan and I think very useful for the next time we get to visit Hoi An (soon I hope):
The image below is Sataro Araki’s junk. He was a successful trader from Nagasaki who married one of the Nguyen clan daughters, and in Nagasaki she was revered as ‘Aniou’ – seemingly a derivation of the Vietnamese phrase used by a wife to get the attention of her husband – ‘Anh Ơi.
The rest of. the archive is well worth a look:
Trinketization 
The Bengali counterpart of “‘Anh Ơi” translates as “are you listening?”
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yep. I think this one has to be sort of shouted, with a rising tone of frustration… anh OI!
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