A linguist's take on Thigh-land / Thailand
Channel: Vagrant
Date: 2020-08-07

This video has been captioned in English!
There has been a lot of discussion on Trump's mispronunciation of Thailand and one person has said that his misprounciation is how Indian English speakers actually say it. This is not true and here, I demonstrate the four different sounds being confused with each other.
For more context, read my Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/VasundharaNLP/status/1291640538857238530
Some disclaimers:
1. Don't make fun of people's speech. It's not cool
2. Wow, we all need to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet in school. I've had enough of terrible spelled-out pronunciations for a lifetime.
3. I'm a native speaker of Indian English. Don't come at me about my accent - I know it's a hodge-podge now because I've lived abroad for many years so I switch in and out of accents like clothes. Rest assured I grew up in India speaking only garden-variety Indian English so you can trust me. Oh, and also I am a linguist!