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20.05, Thursday 3 Jan 2008 Link to this post

Thai personal names include given and family names, honorifics and nicknames, all of which have different cultural meanings than how they're used in the UK.

There's also an alternative way to count your age in China, Korea and Japan, although this is becoming less popular.


 

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