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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Siam is with a long I?
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 03:54:18 GMT
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In article <3176671f.11468570@news.nando.net>,
D Gary Grady <dgary@nando.net> wrote:
>deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:
>
>>Also, his name doesn't have to have anything to do with the name
>>"Siam".  BTW, the current name for the country is Thailand.
>
>As I recall, the official name is Muong Thai, meaing "Land of the
>Free".

The official *Thai* name can be romanised as "Muong Thai", but the
Thais are not as pedantic as, e.g., the Burmese (I mean, the
Myanmarese) so "Thailand" is as acceptable in English as "Ireland"
for "/Eire" or "Spain" for "Espa~na".


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