Friday, December 14, 2007

Thai-Huh?

Every time I tell someone I'm in Taiwan, they always hear Thailand. I just tried updating my contact info at my bank (again) and when the rep repeated the address, she kept saying Thailand.

I understand Thailand is more popular and probably gets a lot more tourism. However, the next time I mention Taiwan, please don't tell me how much you love Thai food and that you saw a documentary about it on TV and was fascinated by how the people get everywhere by riding elephants.

Jason

2 comments:

unklec said...

ha, I always get the opposite.

I'm Thai....Oh you mean from Taiwan......No from Thailand.......Oh I always thought you pronounced that Thighland.

Jason Lavicky said...

And let's not get started on how the media likes to pronounce Phuket.