"If you're doing nothing," he said, "would you tell me a few Burmese words?"

He also wrote down all the Burmese words that Nay Htohn had told him, with their English equivalents, in case he should forget them.

The substantial differences between the colloquial and literary pronunciations, as with Burmese words, was a reason of the British corruption "Pegu".

Bamar names commonly include Pali-derived words combined with native Burmese words, including:

Dha (also spelled dah or dhaw) is the Burmese word for "knife."

"Lek peq-ye," Harrison mumbled, hoping he'd remembered the right Burmese words.

They are considered ligatures or stacked consonants, but are not found in native Burmese words, except for the purpose of abbreviation.

'Old-fashioned dacoits or whatever you'd call them-' 'That's a Burmese word.'

Yahu, it seemed, was a Burmese word.

Suddenly refugees started coming after the start of Operation Pyatya, a Burmese word meaning to create a peaceful land in Myanmar.