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HouseTalk: Kinship Terms for Thai Housekeepers and more
Kinship terms for Thai housekeepers, nannies, drivers, and more… In the last post, What Do You Call Your Thai Housekeeper?, we learned about alternative names for maids in Thailand. During the research, Sarawan (The Parent Vine, Thailand) and I engaged in a discussion about the different terms used for not only housekeepers but drivers, cooks, [...]
HouseTalk: What Do You Call Your Thai Housekeeper?
What do you call your maid?… When I lived in Japan I was just a short bit of stuff. It was too long ago to remember what our maid was called so I asked someone who would know: Tony Joh from thai-faq.com. Tony informed me that maid in Japanese is either ote or kaseifu. Nice [...]
