Consonant Aspirations

The BBC just covered this story:  Singapore terms join Oxford English Dictionary , which is basically about how Singapore English words lik...

At the moment, I'm TA-ing for a course called Language and Power here at the University of Oregon, and I've been recounting the f...

In my previous post , I looked at what the government had hoped to accomplish through its language policies, as summarised here in this quo...

Recently, I joined the Facebook group " Heritage languages of Singapore ", and was immediately directed to an online petition by ...

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, since I saw this advertisement at my uncle's clinic here in Singapore. It's an...

To all Hindus, Happy Deepavali /  இனிய தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்  ( iniya deepavali nalvazhthukkal ).  It's a public holiday here in...

More Siri stuff. But since I'm in Singapore, I thought I'd blog about a clip from the  mrbrown show  that's been making the ro...

The other night I went to the Crystal Jade restaurant at Holland Village (Singapore). As I got to the top of the stairs I saw a sign on the ...

On the Johnson blog at the Economist, there was a post a few days ago titled, "The language holding Malays, Tamils and Chinese together...

Over lunch yesterday, a few Singaporean friends and I were celebrating the fact that 'friend' is now a commonly used verb. Prior to ...

A few days ago I was wandering my favourite section at my favourite bookshop in Singapore - the languages section at Books Kinokuniya at Ta...