Sun 6 Apr 2008
Fancy a facial?
Posted by Seymour Totti under Thailand
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There are some funny names in Thailand. Actually most of them are nicknames. They do have formal names, they are often chosen by a monk when the child is about 30 days old. These are usually long and cumbersome and only used for official documents.
In the meantime the doting parents bestow a nickname, usually the first thing they think of when they gaze upon their little bundle of joy. Noi, Nit and Lek are common. They all mean small … which is reasonable enough. Bum is cutely dimpled, Deng means red and Som means orange. Presumably that is how the wee bairns looked at birth.
I have met a frog (Gop), a several birds (Nok) and an alarming number of girls called Moo … which means pig. How that sneaks into the post-natal lexicon is beyond me.
Noi means little and kanya means girl but as you can see from the picture on the right our Noi Kanya is no little girl.
The word porn comes from the ancient Pali language and it really does mean beauty. I’d say Noi Kanya is definitely great Porn.
See also: The bargirl name game
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