How Many Days In Each Month: The Thai Way
By thomas on Jan 23, 2008 in Thai
Inspired partly by this article, Rikker at Thai 101 has posted a great article about how the Thais remember the months. I thought the Japanese had it easy, but the Thai way is much more elegant.
In Rikker’s words:
In Thai it’s extremely simple: the number of days is encoded directly into the names of the months.
To find out how, read the original article here: How the Thais remember months. It’s a quick read and extremely interesting. Check it out!
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Don’t you use the ‘knuckle-system’?
Rmss | Jan 23, 2008 | Reply
@Rmss: Me personally? Yes I do.
thomas | Jan 23, 2008 | Reply
The knuckle system never fails in a pinch. :) Thanks for the link, thomas.
rikker | Jan 24, 2008 | Reply
It’s funny though that you can see in the names how much days the month has.
In the Netherlands (especially older people) use this trick for something else: If there’s a ‘r’ in the name of the month, you better dress good, because it can get cold.
Rmss | Jan 24, 2008 | Reply
Slight deviation, but the Netherlands example reminded me that in Spanish and Italian (and maybe others) the same method is used for when to eat/not eat shellfish - because of their reproducive cycle.
Cheers.
mangkorn | Jan 24, 2008 | Reply