Monday, September 14, 2009

Kanachanaburi train tour - signs










A few English signs (and some English on a coffee cup) we saw during our Kanachanaburi train tour.

The coffee cup is particularly interesting to me from my English teaching days. In Thai you don't generally have hard consonants at the end of words, so someone learning English here will generally skip the hard sound at the end of a word like 'milk'. Instead, the sound spoken will sound the same as 'mayo'. On the cup, 'milk' is spelled like it often sounds here - 'miu'. A lot of the English transcription here is like this, so some degree of understanding of the Thai accent when speaking English is often needed to decipher signs or writing with less context than the cup.

Also, that's the first 'most wanted' sign we've seen while here. And that's one happy cartoon squid selling his squid brand fish sauce - because everything goes better with some fermented fish!

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