bye TNR Staff

 

THE tasty Thai noodle dish “Pad Thai” enjoyed all around the world has now been listed in the Oxford dictionary website as a category C2 international word, which puts it on par with words like pizza from Italy, said Sanook.com.

 

A search at https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ yields the following definition for Pad Thai:

 

“A dish from Thailand made with a type of noodles made from rice, spices, egg, vegetables and sometimes meat or seafood.”

 

Background of Pad Thai

 

During World War II with the influx of a large number of Chinese people noodles had become the most popular dish in the country.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/03/10/pad-thai-listed-by-oxford-dictionary-website-as-an-international-word/

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Background of Pad Thai

 

During World War II with the influx of a large number of Chinese people noodles had become the most popular dish in the country.

Heresy ! Are they suggesting this is not a 1000% Thai dish ? Did they not see the international incident over those sickly sweet tapioca deserts just last week when the British ambassador to Cambodia had the gall to suggest they were of Khmer origin ? The fools !

 

Incoming angry Thai netizens in 3...2...1....

Pad

Thai

Looks like two words to me

58 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Pad

Thai

Looks like two words to me

PadThai........ Fixed it for ya! 

13 hours ago, mrfill said:

Pad

Thai

Looks like two words to me

Not if written in Thai it wouldn't!

I've always been perplexed as to the reference or label of things being international. 

Whatever the <deleted> that is. 

 

International.

 

Think about it.