Consonant Aspirations

Today's post is brought to you by "ongoing problems with terminology in linguistics". As my newsfeed this week has filled u...

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...

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...

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 today, my brother mentioned that our grandmother (and I suppose a number of our older relatives here in Singapore) often ask the ...

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...