Monday, February 18, 2008

Funny Signs

Yesterday on our way back from the Fortune IT Mall, I saw a road sign that caught my interest. Like many of the signs for major roads here, it had both Thai and English. The English portion read "Bang Sue".

As an extremely mature adult, I chuckled to myself thinking about that one. "Where are you going tonight, Brian?" "Oh, I'm going to Bang Sue." "Well have fun dear, but hurry, there are alot of people going to Bang Sue this time of day. A lot of them come early to beat the traffic."

Of course, the English spelling is misleading. Bang Sue is not pronounced to rhyme with "dang you". Instead it sounds more like "boang se-ew".

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