One of the challenges ahead for Singapore is to decide whether to adopt British English or American English, said Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Tuesday afternoon. As he urged ...

Ten years ago, the English-language world witnessed a small milestone in a larger jubilee. At Singapore’s 50th National Day celebrations on August 9, 2015, the unthinkable came to pass. In the ...

More than 10 years ago, I took part in a student exchange, coming to the University of Hong Kong. As a Singaporean, I was amazed by the liberalism on campus, where students led protests on matters of ...

In its March quarterly update, the hallowed Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added 19 new "Singapore English" items in its lexicon. There are new senses of common English words, loanwords from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper provides new data from Colloquial Singapore English (CSE) showing a hitherto unnoticed subject–object asymmetry: empty objects, but ...