On 6/9/2026 at 4:43 PM, novacova said:

Personally have never been to Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan AmonphimanawatansathitSakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit, the wife goes two or three times a year and complains about how much time it takes to get from place to place there, so no thanks and will probably never make it to Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan AmonphimanawatansathitSakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit and prefer slower paced visits.

Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan AmonphimanawatansathitSakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit is a sheet hole, thats why many residents flock to Pattaya on the weekends.

Me, I hate Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan AmonphimanawatansathitSakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit.

In my 20+ yrs in Pattaya i can count on 1 hand how many times I have been to I hate Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan AmonphimanawatansathitSakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit

Edited June 10Jun 10 by Ralf001

21 hours ago, papa al said:

Patty 👍🏼

Patts 👍🏼

Patters 👍🏼

Pa TIE ya

👎👎

That's the one that always gets me. If I understand correctly, there is equal mid-tone emphasis on all 3 syllables.

2 hours ago, LosLobo said:

How to pronounce Pattaya like a Thai......

(i.e. similar for all intents and purposes)

พัทยา (Putt-ta-yaa)
Like in golf, tar and yaa-baa (but soft p and t, no air, smooth flow)

NB Not linguistically precise—but that’s not the goal.

its definitely not putt ta ya its Pat as in ( postman ) then the unwritten (in Thai) "a" is hardly vocalised followed by yah it could almost be written Pat'ya but the apostrophe is just a bit "lacking"

That is the reason I go now to Hua Hin. Much easier to pronounce.

10 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

its definitely not putt ta ya its Pat as in ( postman ) then the unwritten (in Thai) "a" is hardly vocalised followed by yah it could almost be written Pat'ya but the apostrophe is just a bit "lacking"

Paat. You roll the A.

1 hour ago, Peabody said:

That's the one that always gets me. If I understand correctly, there is equal mid-tone emphasis on all 3 syllables.

yeah I reckon the tones the same on all 3 syllables but there is definitely a seriously reduced emphasis on the mid syllable when the Thais say it In fairness, people can be forgiven for mispronouncing it if they don't speak Thai and have only seen it written in roman script but I agree "patts" is pretty sad it to me evokes an image of a certain kind of person, a kind I can't really describe but a kind I don't like , consequently nobody I associate with would ever use that word

8 minutes ago, Cenovis said:

That is the reason I go now to Hua Hin. Much easier to pronounce.

so are you a Wah-hin or a Hooowah hin kind of guy ?

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

so are you a Wah-hin or a Hooowah hin kind of guy ?

Who Hin

Hoi Hin

Why Hin

6 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Paat. You roll the A.

raised a good point there I reckon a lot of Thais would struggle to actually pronounce the full name of Bangkok correctly,

There are quite a few " r" s in it and many of them struggle to get there tongue round the "r" s (settle down lol) never mind roll em

Have the Thai girls at 0.55min got it right............

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

raised a good point there I reckon a lot of Thais would struggle to actually pronounce the full name of Bangkok correctly,

There are quite a few " r" s in it and many of them struggle to get there tongue round the "r" s (settle down lol) never mind roll em

They roll R, L and A. But also drop Rs. Khrap sounds like Khrup or Khup.

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

raised a good point there I reckon a lot of Thais would struggle to actually pronounce the full name of Bangkok correctly,

There are quite a few " r" s in it and many of them struggle to get there tongue round the "r" s (settle down lol) never mind roll em

They drill the pupils ad nauseam till they can pronounce it correctly.

• Hua: Pronounced like "hwa" (rhymes with "spa" or the "wha" in "whatever"). A common mistake is saying it as two separate syllables like "Hoo-ah", but it flows together as one quick sound.

18 minutes ago, Cenovis said:

That is the reason I go now to Hua Hin. Much easier to pronounce.

but its nowhere near as much fun, why not take the easiest option "Cha-Am simple to say and the sort of place you only visit once Its very Thai orientated clearly indicated by a beach totally hidden from sun /day light by interlocking umbrellas

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

but its nowhere near as much fun, why not take the easiest option "Cha-Am simple to say and the sort of place you only visit once Its very Thai orientated clearly indicated by a beach totally hidden from sun /day light by interlocking umbrellas

I went there twice! Charming place lol

Phuket. Easy to say but some farangs say Fuket lol

10 minutes ago, Off Piste said:

Have the Thai girls at 0.55min got it right............

of course they have , they are native speakers

2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I went there twice! Charming place lol

stopped off on the way to wah hin for a pi$$ and again on the way home ?

Phuket is the only island without a Koh in it's name. It could be Goh Fuket to some lol

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

stopped off on the way to wah hin for a pi$$ and again on the way home ?

Stayed 2 nights once and had lunch once. Not much there.

8 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Phuket. Easy to say but some farangs say Fuket lol

well having been there twice, that's what i would say now, if anybody suggested going there

9 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

of course they have , they are native speakers

They just didn't look the brightest, well the one on the right at least

3 minutes ago, Off Piste said:

They just didn't look the brightest, well the one on the right at least

the one on the left looked a bit "studious" so she probably got it bang on the one on the right was "do-able " so i didn't ( wasn't able ) to take much notice of what she was saying

Howdy y'all, I just love Poo-tie-ya!

2 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

its definitely not putt ta ya its Pat as in ( postman ) then the unwritten (in Thai) "a" is hardly vocalised followed by yah it could almost be written Pat'ya but the apostrophe is just a bit "lacking"

I disagree.

I already said it wasn’t linguistically precise, so that criticism misses the point. I used ‘putt’ as a rough approximation, though ‘paht’ would have been better, but many would still take it as ‘pat’. And ‘pat’ as in ‘postman’ is at least understandable to some English ears — unless you’re leaning into a Scottish-style vowel.

My ‘no air, smooth flow’ comment already addressed your ‘pat’ya’ point, and ‘yaa’ is long, not short.

It's amusing to see non-natives discussing the (supposedly) correct pronunciation of a Thai placename. Personally, I've always wondered what the Thai pronunciation of worcestershire sauce might be, especially as an accompaniment to roasted squirrel.

6 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

especially as an accompaniment to roasted squirrel.

I enjoy roasted with HP or my favourite is pat phet gra rot

On 6/9/2026 at 3:19 PM, scorecard said:

Why do some farang have to change it to 'Patts'.

That´s easy! It´s just because they believe it´s kind of tough to do. They think it makes them look and sound like they are in the group who knows and have been there and lived long time. Makes them feel a little bit over other people. In other words, totally delusional persons, that need their head taken care of by a specialist .

Edited June 10Jun 10 by Gottfrid

20 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

Mispronunciations is of course always forgivable, but giving nicknames to places has always struck me as a pretentious attempt to feign 'old hand' status. People who use these terms need to be made aware of how unpleasant and jarring these nicknames sound to the native Thai ear, and to those foreigners who have bothered to gain an appreciation for the beauty of the Thai language.

Nah, such an equally pretentious attitude is deserving of torment!

Edited June 10Jun 10 by jacko45k