No, I live in England

Yes, I am. As for the use of the name Siam today, there's a popular shopping district in the heart of Bangkok which is called Siam with malls there called Siam Paragon, Siam Center, Siam Discovery, a shopping village called Siam Square, and an aquarium called Siam Ocean World.

I used to live abroad in Thailand, so this was very interesting

Thai living in Thailand. A minor mistake in the pronunciation of Phibun, P should be a heavy sound, but I understand foreigners trying to pronounce another language.

Hi! I'm Thai and I love watching you videos! From what I've been listening to, your major flaw is that, you're doing contents about linguistic, but you lack non-English words pronunciation skills. I suggest, whenever possible, when you come across a name in non-English language, look up their Wikipedia articles, find the IPA, if you're lucky, there might be some recordings, but if there isn't, just put the name in their native language and put it on google translate and listen to it. It's still better than coming up with a pronunciation from how it's spelled using Latin alphabets. Please, never, ever go by your English language instinct, Phuket is pronounced "Poo-get" and not "Fuck-it", so "Phibun" is "Pee-Boon" not "Fi-bun"

A town where I lived in my childhood is a sauce name. #sriracha 🤧

Vee Satayamas That's good stuff.

The island I lived in is a name of popular coffee and programming language 😂

@@adiabd1 Java?

555(you will get the references if you are Thai)

The French, Dutch and Russian flags also come to mind. Also of note is the flag of Liberia, which looks a lot like the American flag.

@@EpicB No surprise with the last one, as Liberia was basically founded by the United States.

And Cuba, and the UK, and Norway and Iceland....

@@TheAlps36 Reminds me of a joke in a webcomic called Transmission. Two young men (brothers) are living in California, and are called out by their neighbor for not flying the Red, White, and Blue. As these two young gents are recent immigrants from ENGLAND, guess which flag they fly.

@@TheAlps36 the UK is not a country

Boooooooo. No actually, nice one

Owch

Nice one! XD

This pun is great. lmao

Siamese twins

So people in Thailand speak Laotian intresting I thought it was a country is also the language type thing as in Thai people speak Thai.

@@garretwoeller7669 No, there are a group of languages called Tai Languages, spelled without an h. One of them is Laotian. Another is Thai, spelled with an h. But Laotian *is* a Tai (spelled without an h) language.

@@LangThoughts again I did not know this and I'm glad I learned it as I wish to go Thailand at some point.

@@garretwoeller7669 You'll find the exact opposite in Laos, especially in large cities like Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Lao people tend to listen to TV and music in Thai, giving them conversational proficiency or even fluency in Thai.

The Thai language displays regional variation. Travelling east into Issan there are changes in dialect. Travelling further east into Laos this trend continues. Though the scripts of Thai and Lao are different, the basic spoken language may be phonetically intelligible for day to day purposes. (The basic verbs and sentence structure for example)

that makes sense... since malay was once part of siam before british separate and created malaysia.

@@user-wy4bx9ko6s malaya (now Malaysia) u meant, malay is ethnicity/language.

In Malaysia, you have a food menu, called"Mee Siam", but we don't have this menu in Thailand. So ironic indeed...haha

@@bakabon114 dont forget bandung juice and USA fried rice lol.

@@bakabon114 it looks very similar to Phad Thai which is an actual iconic food in Thailand. Maybe that is the origin.

@@quidam_surprise I don't know the real answer. The school's history book doesn't really tell me when we start to call ourselves siamese. We just do for some reason. However, some people said we call ourselves as siamese to avoid confusion to foreigner, since there are alot of people who still refer to Thailand as Siam back in the day. Some said that it's our "original name" and we should embrace it more (which i find it conflicting, since originally, as the video stated, we natively call our country as "Muang Thai" from the start.)

@@randodox8375 same situation with "Bangkok" (it's actually read "Bahng-gawk"), it's an old name. Most Thais calls it "Krungthep". Only foreigners calls it Bangkok.

@@SickOfDemocracy Krungthep, the City of Angels, is much more beautiful.

@@Simon.the.Likeable full name of krungthep Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

@@mammoth9080 รู้แล้ว

Thank you. I like to see this video of my country.

ผมชอบไทยแลนด์ดูเท่ห์เป็นสากลเป็นที่รู้จัก

Suomi

It's very interesting since Finland and Suomi, while very different, have always been used in exactly the same way even though the definition of Finland has changed through the years. Neither of them really have a known meaning so that probably helps.

What I'm pretty sure about etymology of Finland -> Fenland, in finnish is literally suomaa -> Suomi

Albania (shqipëria) and Croatia (Hrvatska) are also exonyms

Greece too

And you can only access it if you have obsidian and flint and steel. :)

And Holland is the Land of Hol

ทำไมฮอลแลนด์ถึงเปลี่ยนชื่อครับ??

The name Siam also sounds cooler than Thailand, imo

Nah, malays call thais orang siam or siam people still to this day… it’s becoming increasingly rare but the association of Siam is still the Thais

As a thai we should name it Kalaland. We are not unite anymore, fight among our self and corruption.

Hey I want to ask a question, what happened after Ayutthaya fall? How many Siam people are alive today?

"Siamland" sounds cool

what country are you talking about?

@@ravens4096 He's referring to Thailand

ประเทศที่เสรีภาพ น้อยลงทุกวัน จึงเกิดการประท้วงขึ้นในหลายเดือนที่ผ่านมา

We've never truly been free in the first place. Same goes to slavery, yes it were demolished, but. Only to be replaced by Military Drafting instead. They worked the Drafted extremely hard. Even tho it's just two years service, it is still hell on earth akin to slavery.

Coups are a better bet than communism.

Maybe they could compromise and settle on "Cambria" (the Latin name for Wales). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I say this because when it came time to coin an Internet top-level domain for Switzerland, there was much wrangling as to which letters to include. French speakers wanted an abbreviation of "Suisse." German speakers wanted one of "Schweiz." Italian speakers wanted one of "Svizzera." And Romansh speakers wanted one of "Svizra." In the end, they settled on " .ch ," from the Latin name of the country *Confederatio Helvetica* . 🇨🇭

Thank you. Wales seems magnificent. I want to go .....

Cymru am byth

@@grantorino2325 nah cymru am byth, fuck that latin shih

Lindy beige has a video on that if anyone's interested

@@bar7381 yeah I’ve seen it, I thought it may be an interesting topic for viewers of this channel too

Lol

Anshul Yes Siam is not refer to skin tone like Laotian said. Thailand believe there is พระสยามเทวาธิราช (Siam Devathiraj) who is God that protect the land also Siam can mean green land or Golden land.

Many Malaysians still call Thailand as Siam (pronounced see-um, instead of Sy-am).

true hahaha. but there's a lot of younger generation who like to learn about history. so they would probably think about Siam as old name of Thailand, or region of today central Thailand.

Yes, I agree.

Their also call Siamese twin in thai too(แฝดสยาม/Faed syam)

Siamese twins to call conjoined twins is pretty popular worldwide, I guess

in malay we say 'kembar siam' literally meaning siam twin. i guess a global phenomena

Here's the reason: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker

That’s a bit of a letdown considering siam was home to 4 kingdoms throughout the years... sukhothai, ayuthaya, thonburi and of course krung tep or bangkok.... all 4 are Siam and now it’s a name for shopping district. Siam is the better name for the country and it should be our pride to be called siam... like japan, like the uk

This annoys me to no end. English arrogance thinking the world revolves around their phonetics!

"Had" in the biblical sense? When she was already married?

@@Simon.the.Likeable had, as in teaching in college in the early 80s. I had students back then taking my class . Nothing biblical! I did bump into her and her husband on campus one time. He was so nice. And I thought “why the family upset”??? Such a great couple.

Ratcha-Anachak Thai (ราชอาณาจักรไทย) is a full official name that almost nobody uses in daily life, usually only appears on legal texts. Even our passport doesn't contain that word in Thai (well, but Kingdom of Thailand is used in English).

That’s just the Buddhist calendar

A number of Americans have trouble negotiating spoken English.

@@Simon.the.Likeable And the English as well, as this case demonstrates.

@@Simon.the.Likeable well this guy is British so...don't know why you dragged Americans into this.

I never knew this. It seems that English speakers/nations are sometimes reluctant to change place names unless there is some political pressure to do so. Beijing was called Peking for a long time even though it didn’t match the Mandarin pronunciation. Iran was called Persia for a long time. There’s another example recently that I can’t think of where the government pretty much said “if you address letters using the old name, we won’t deliver them” which forced English speaking nations to adopt the new name. Maybe it was Istanbul (formerly Constantinople, but that wasn’t so recent). Maybe the Thai government just needs to put some political pressure to force people to adopt a new name for the capital? (Though timing would be important, maybe with COVID, countries are focusing on more important matters currently?)

Bang Kok (pronounced Baang Kork) in local language (Bang mean Many of, Kok mean a name of a tree called Kok, so District of many Kok trees) was a district near the Chao Phraya river where the old capital (Thon Buri) is located on. The capital was moved to the East side of the river and named Phra Nakon and later Krung Thep but foreigners stick with the old name of Bang Kok since, and unfortunately Thai too (Officials should not adapt the word Bangkok in international trades and politics, I guess it's just for convenient)

Krung Thep is just the start of it. In full it is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, the longest city name in the world.

It comes from Khmer. Referring to that region. Or the later migrants of Tai Kadai, and a mixture nowadays, into the former territories of khmer empire. Just like we happened to call Viets as Yuan / Yuen. But interestingly, as Viet are tai kadai, we didn't refer to them as that. All regions which bordered the Khmer empire would soon call them Xian / Xiêm, Siem cambodia (Siem Reap) Siem, Champa and Siam, Malaya (same thing)

โปรดยกเลิก112

Are you a royalist?

No, just a fair warning

Keyword: If they find out but don’t insult him though it’s too risky

I believe it was the Anglo-Saxons (Germanic people now known as English). They called them "Wall Ez". Now two terms, Wales and Welsh. The term meant foreigner, but it was the invaders calling the natives foreigner, how rude. I know the Welsh call it Cymru, but it sounds like "Koomley" to me when spoken. Before the Anglo-Saxons the English had many different tribal names. The Romans called them all Britons or Brytons, but they also had specific area names. They called Ireland, Hibernian, which translates to Winterland. The people from Ireland were called "Gaels", the Romans called them Scoti. The Scots were called Picts. The modern Scottish people are a blend of the Picts and Gaels. Scotland was called Caledonia, England Albion. In 410 AD the Romans called Wales "Britannia secunda". Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, Cymru. The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, after the Anglo-Saxon settlement. Ireland's people and language were Gaelic, but the country was named after the goddess Eiru. Eireland - Ireland. I am from Australia. Did you know that Australia "stole" the name Australia from Antarctica? Well sort of. Before the discovery and naming of Antarctica, explorers declared that there was no other "great southern land" than the place we now call Australia. But on older maps you can see that parts of Antartica and parts of Australia were not known as separate continents and were called "Terra Australis Incognito". Incognito meant that it was unknown as they had not finished the maps. When Mathew Flinders finished sailing around Australia, he decided to drop the "incognito" and change the Latin to Greek? But when Antarctica was discovered Australia had fully stolen the name for itself. The continent of Antarctica is in the Antarctic circle, so it is aptly named. Australia the country of course is named after the continent. The U.S.A. is also named after its continent or rather it is the name that it uses because it never got a name. This is why people consider "The United States" to be the name of the country. At least it's not all called "New England"! America, the U.S., the states, we know you mean the U.S. of A. The name took a backseat to the war against Britain. Britain's war was against their "American" colonies. Which is why some people, like us Australians, call them Americans. Eventually the remaining British colonies in North America were named Canada. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years. So America is derived from Amerigo. Vespucci was the person who truly "discovered" the two American continents. Another reason the USA doesn't have a name is because the U.S. are 50 states and they are like 50 united countries. In Australia there are two states whose names are a compass direction and the word Australia. Another two were named for the same Queen. The only really cool one is Tasmania. It was originally called Van Diemen's Land by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. Can you guess who they ended up naming it after? The Dutch name New Zealand has stayed. I think it translates to "new sea land". That almost sounds the same as New Zealand. The original Zeeland in the Netherlands are islands.

Even Indians name themselves shyam

That can make sense in cardinal directions(North, East, West, South etc.) as well. In many eastern cultures, cardinal directions were colored. For example in Chinese one; North, East, West and South were colored Black, Blue, White and Red respectively. In other neighboring cultures, the color for East could be Green or even a mix of Blue and Green. Therefore, "Shyam" could mean "Eastern land" as well.

That could be true. In Siam, 100 years ago, the entire country was full of forests (about 65-70% of whole land area). Nowadays, only 30% of forests remain due to deforestation and crop growing...

so thailand is the real greenland

Siamdesh. It was part of Ancient Indian Subcontinent which known was Bharat Varsh

Mantra of Under Thirty's: Never miss a chance to display ignorance. It's fun!!!

ConquerIng.... GenocidIng...

@@waynemarvin5661 what’s your problem? No fun allowed?

Land of the Eng, the families descended from Chinese settlers

Netherlands the lands of the Nethers. If this were the case would it refer to the height of the people or the hellish nature?

Seriously? Siamese cats, siamese twin, siamese fighting fish... at some point you have to wonder where siam is so you search it out

I didn't think it was possible to NOT know this.

I just watched the part where he said that exact same thing -_-

@@stuartblittleynolan9486 XD

Also famous Conjoined Twin came from Siam!!! So that's Siamese Twin^-^

Well​ yeah​ and​ am​ thai But​ in​ thailand​ we​ don't​ know​ that​ much​ info

@@sriparameshwara3855 Excellent observation.

Yeah, I can't believe he wrote that! drives me insane that mistake! I wondered after I commented on it if anyone else noticed. Maybe the next video he can name explain its and it's lol

It's merely another example of an American having problems with language. He couldn't pronounce Phibun properly @ 06:47 either.

@@Simon.the.Likeable What American?

@@StayCoolKeto The narrator. Also, it should be, "Which American?"

@@Simon.the.Likeable If you are going to be pedantic, there is no full stop after "The narrator" as it's not a sentence. Also, you are wrong! 'Which' is used when there are a few choices, and "what' is used with an unknown/ large number. I still have no idea what American you are talking about.

EN-GER-LAND😉

Khmer language (anachark) 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 plz tell them more fake siamese country😂

@@ahreach240 อาณาจักร it's combination of a-na + jàk (อาณา + จักร ) these words came from bali or maybe sanskrit you dumb AF and if you don't know both thailand/thai/siam and khmer/cambodia used to share many of words especially royal word or royal language but now we don't do that anymore and as far as i know you guys still use loanword from thailand huh? but don't be embarrassed you guys can use it as much as you want hehe we thais have manner enough to not do dirty tricks like you guys did

For saying that, give us back Siemmarat! (and Si Sophon, Phra Tabong, Prachankiriket). They are Siamese territories! Thailand will win them back!

@@forretresss hopefully you're kidding haha. Why would you want sth that doesn't want you. Also it's pronounce Serei Soaphon(BanteyMeanchey) Battambang in the NATIVE way and I don't even know what that last thing is I'm assuming Pursat or Koh kong

@@piesause1376 Prachankiriket is the siamese name of KohKong province that the French refused to return to Siam... They only returned Trat [in exchange for Siemmarat, Si Sophon and Phra Tabong provinces.] Thai-Laos-Cambodia are 1 country. If not for the French, it would be the Greater Thai kingdom. Laos would not have turned poor and communist and Khmer would not have Khmer Rouge massacre and would still have Saigon (Khmer Krom). Cambodia and Laos king and queens are related with Siamese kings by marriage but they betrayed Siam and sided with France...

@@forretresss Boo Hoo, we are free from you people now. We got our old land and still got few left in Surin, Buriram and Sisaket.

Yeah well, Patrick has records of mispronunciations, we just have to live with it

Sa-yam

Sa-yam

See-umm? I think you are not Thai.

So it is rather way around. The country is not called by the poeple, but the People by the country/area they were living in.

iirc the reasoning for adding “ย” is rather nonsensical, they said it is akin to woman applying make up or something along those line lol

Looking at the article, it shows that “tai” and “thai” are different from each other. “Tai” are the many peoples who speak the languageS of the region, and the “Thai” are one of them. In short, all Thai are Tai but not all Tai are Thai. (Obviously, these are different words.)

@@lewatoaofair2522 Tai = Free

Austrian Red Bull is very different from the original Red Bull. He bought the rights to the name but changed it for the western market. These days people in Thailand aren't too happy with the wealthy family that owns Red Bull, as the son has gotten away with killing someone in a road accident. Fortunately there are energy drinks like M-150 and Carabao which people drink instead.

The Austrian owner modified the original Thai version for western tastes and created that version of Red Bull in partnership with the Thai owner and inventor. The Thai family still owns 51 percent of Red Bull, while still selling their original version in Thailand and other Asian countries.

Clean up or defeat. Reap means clean up. And yes. We're the ones to refer to Thailand and Thais and the place as Siam firstly. But people have yet to explore cambodia and its history majorly overlooked. It would give you a lot of answers for today's Thailand, considering how a bunch of Angkor temples dot the landscape of Thailand. And it wasn't built by any of those you think are there today: some not all.

Siam Raash สยามราช thief Khmer changed it to Siam Reap 😂😂😂

yeah rtgs is kinda dumb like that

In Malaysia there a flower Name Bunga Kemboja or Cambodian Flower

I think the name came from the relationship between Old Kedah/Kingdom Of Kedah before age of islam and The Kingdom Of Funan