English is not a colonial language in Thailand and has developed more slowly than varieties of English in post-British-colonial countries, which are sometimes called non-native varieties of English. The history of colonial and postcolonial English that these other countries in the region have is absent in Thailand. This paper aims to examine the evolution of English in Thai society using Schneider’s Dynamic Model (2007) to determine whether it meets the criteria that would allow us to consider it ‘Thai English’. Analysis indicates that English in Thailand has arrived at the Phase II level, ‘Exonormative Stabilization’ with Thais prioritizing British/American English rather than what we might call Thai English.
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