In Thailand, July 29th every year is celebrated as National Thai Language Day. However, a recent poll showed that 85.3 per cent of people surveyed in Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces were not aware of Thai language day. The survey also revealed some shocking results. According to the poll, 84.9 per cent of people surveyed said they didn’t know how many vowels existed in the Thai language. Eighty per cent of people in the same survey said they didn’t know the meaning of the word “poem”, while 75 per cent did not know the meaning of “prose”. A number didn’t know how to express the sound of each Thai syllable properly.