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[Rikker]

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The -buri/-bury connection is incorrect, as Richard W has demonstrated to me before (I thought it was on this forum, but I can't find it now). To briefly summarize/restate (correct me if I'm wrong again, Richard), the English bury/burgh/burough is from Proto Germanic *burgs "fortress" and ultimately from Proto Indo European *bhrgh "high". It corresponds to Sanskrit bhrant. Thai บุรี (and, rarely, บุระ) is from Pali ปุร pura "town, city". It's the same word as in, say, Devapura "city of the gods".

(Here's my response to that from #15.)

[astanhope]

I was told at dinner the other evening that speed tablets in the UK are commonly known as "Yaabaa" from the Thai.  Being an American and not having visited my ancestral homeland in ten+ years I do not know how prevalent this is.

The popular iPhone app / Facebook game "Words with Friends" which is based on Scrabble allows the word "soi."

Edited by astanhope, 2012-02-03 14:45:30.

[zzaa09]

katana, on 2008-07-27 00:55:15, said:

Good one mangkorn, seems to be more on it here:
"The word bong is an adaptation of Thai baung (Thai: บ้อง),[3] a cylindrical wooden tube, pipe, or container cut from bamboo. The Thai word passed into the English language during the Vietnam War when five American military bases were located in Thailand. One of the earliest recorded uses of the word dates to a piece in the January 1971 issue of the Marijuana Review.[4]"
http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Bong

Interesting tid-bit.
Thanks!