Marcel duchamp wrote:
> Ray Newman wrote:
>   
>> I grew up in Java Village NY
>>     
>
> So you are totally like Java Man? ;>
>
>   
>> Interesting is the word "farang", a word for foreigner in the Thai language.
>>
>> I once overheard a guy on a flight to Thailand trying to impress a fellow passenger
>> about his travels to Thailand.
>>
>> He pronounced "farang" just as it is spelled in many travel books about Thailand.
>>
>> However the word is pronounced more like Phil long.
>>
>> So I knew he never set foot in Thailand before. I just smiled to myself.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Have you read "Bangkok 8" by John Burdett by any chance?  I've never 
> been to Thailand myself so I wondered how that word was pronounced.  It 
> occurs many times in the book.
>
>   
I believe it's pronounced "fah - rahng" - from my wife who lived in 
Bangkok for a year.
 
Alden


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