Whats in a name ? Placenames.

[Bangyai]

When you first arrive here everywhere sounds kind of exotic and arouses the curiosity . Before long you get to know what the placename actually means and it all sounds a bit more mundane as if the person who first named the place was low on imagination and liked to call a spade a spade. Then it sounds as if you're in the outback or Midwest. Examples :

Nah Glua ........ Salt Field
DinDeng ......... Red Earth
Pla Bahk ........ Fish Mouth
Seechompu .... Pink .... ( A gay kinda place ? )
Prayuen ........ Standing Monk ( Standing one eyed monk would be interesting)Maeprik ....... Mother chilli.

And so on. Do you know where you live or have you spotted any weird placenames in your travels ? I would like to believe that somewhere out there is a little village with the picturesque name of LookhamKwai ....Buffalo's Bollocks.

[somtamslap]

I saw a little village on my travels the other day called Non-Patio. I distincyively remember seeing no patios whatsoever in the area..

What the feck does Non-Patio mean??

[dirtydog]

Pattaya=whoresville?

[somtamslap]

Pattaya

Possibly. Was about as far removed from there as you can get..not a ridiculously short denim skirt in sight

[Thetyim]

What the feck does Non-Patio mean??

it means "worm holiday"

[somtamslap]

^ Clever.

It could also mean caterpillar holiday though...because, Hey, the fuckers look the same.

[Happyman]

Just off Phuket Island there is a sign to Bang Ben Beach !
As my housekeeper at the time was called Ben she was extremely embarrased when I explained why I laughed as we drove by !!

She was a lovely lady - over 70 !!!

[Bangyai]

Just off Phuket Island there is a sign to Bang Ben Beach !

Bang Sue on the underground springs to mind. Obviously,a long time ago, the village bike was a girl named Sue. From this I now see that where I live means a ' Big Shag ' .......nah , couldn't be that simple

[pickel]

I've always wondered why the city Had Yai is called that. Does it actually mean "big beach"? Not sure why, as the ocean is about 60km away.

[Moonraker]

I once lived on a street called Soi Pootang in Bangkok, that was always worth a giggle.

[Bangyai]

I once lived on a street called Soi Pootang in Bangkok, that was always worth a giggle.

I once had a room in Pattaya in a Soi Thai Hee but it was spelt with the wrong H which kind of spoiled the accuracy of the name.

Mother crops up in a lot of village names :

Mae Tia............... short mum
Mae Den ............. dancing mum ( been at the Leo )
Mae Ngow ........... lonely mum ( might be worth a visit )
Mae Wahn ......... sweet mum

Dads don't get a look in so mums the word. Food does o.k. though:

Bobea ....... Spring roll
Dtengmo ...... Watermelon

And maybe Ekkamai was named after a lost Englishman found wandering around muttering " Where the Ekkamai " ? .............maybe not.

[panama hat]

Between Chahthaburi and Pattaya, or was it Bangkok?, there's a place called Bangsai or Bang Sai . . . in Chinese it means having a shit.

[Rural Surin]

Between Chahthaburi and Pattaya, or was it Bangkok?, there's a place called Bangsai or Bang Sai . . . in Chinese it means having a shit.

Well, you have the locale correct. {Patters}

[matsalleh]

I've always wondered why the city Had Yai is called that. Does it actually mean "big beach"? Not sure why, as the ocean is about 60km away.

You may see sometimes the spelling: HAAD YAI, meaning the short version of "Ma Hat Yai", meaning big Ma Hat (มะหาด) tree.
No Beach here - 26 km down in Songkhla is the next one!

[Bangyai]

Between Chahthaburi and Pattaya, or was it Bangkok?, there's a place called Bangsai or Bang Sai . . . in Chinese it means having a shit.

There's a well known Chinese restaurant in Soho named Wong Kee.....which would be circle of shit in Thai.

[Norton]

Roiet.....101.