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Another quick question.

The word "หลวง" actually begins with "ห" rather than "ล". Is it common practice, when abbreviating words in Thai, to use the first letter that actually makes a sound -- i.e., ignoring silent letters like "ห"?

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is the only letter in Thai that can be silent at the start of a word (ok, there's also the but this only occurs in 4 words). Yes, it is common practice to ignore the silent . This would therefore be different to the English acronyms system.

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I guess he is referring to words in which the Or Ang is silent. Like in "อย่าง". For other words where the Or Ang reflects a vowel sound, the acronym is usually given as "อ." The word "ongkarn", for organization, for instance.

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For those people that can read Thai, I suggest they buy the Abbreviation Dictionary (ปทานุกรมอักษรย่อ) from any branch of Asia Books there's 400 odd pages of mainly interesting information for about B60.

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