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It was confusing for me to try to learn how to read Thai, and see “Bangkok” on many road and bus signs, and yet not be able to make out the letter for “B”.\u00a0 Now i know why – the city is known by the Thais as “Krung Thep”, and the official name is so long, that it is in the Guiness book of world records, and is translated something like “eternal city of angels dedicated to eternal king blah blah blah about Indian gods etc. etc.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Feels good to be able to understand some Thai letters for real now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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