survanab'hoomi ?

Join the crowd :-)

A thai friend says it is 4 syllables - soo wa nah phoom

Haven't tried it on another person yet to see if they know what I'm talking about.

soo-wan-na-phoom

su-wan-na-poom

soo-wan-na-phoom

su-wan-na-poom

Thanks Bambi. Could you tell us where the tones are in this.

soo-wan-na-phoom

su-wan-na-poom

Thanks Bambi. Could you tell us where the tones are in this.

low,middle,high,middle.

soo-wan-na-phoom

su-wan-na-poom

Thanks Bambi. Could you tell us where the tones are in this.

low,middle,high,middle.

hehe ... welldone

soo-wan-na-phoom

su-wan-na-poom

Thanks Bambi. Could you tell us where the tones are in this.

low,middle,high,middle.

Great! Now it actually seems easy to pronounce, don't know what all the fuss was. All yeah, the spelling. :-)

My ultimite question, and I was about to start a thread about this... is 'Why is there a silent 'I' at the end of the name?'

I mean, anybody with no knowledge of Asian spellings is for sure going to pronounce an 'ee' sound on the end - surely confusing taxi drivers and whoever else.

It ends with an 'mn' sound not an 'i'....so why add it???

darn....there is already a thread going on this! Got my answer already.

bhumi said like "poom" per the airport website

Doesnt make sense! bhumi is a hindi/malay word (= land = land in Thailand as well it seems per the website) used in malaysia and said "boo me" so I cant help saying it that way as so used to saying it their.....

How the <deleted> can Thais say "bhumi" as "poom" ??????????????????????????

Because they can and because the short 'i' is silent in final position in that word.

It's that simple, and they do not give a shrimp's tail what Malays or Indians think in this matter. They are Thai.

As Bambi said, altogether now:

Soo' - wann - na' - poom

Or, to avoid you Anglos pronouncing "a" as "ea" or "ae",

Soo' wun na' poom

The vowel lengths matter. All vowels apart from the "oo" in poom should be short (that's why I added the ' ). The "oo" in "poom" is long.

And there you have it.