Singlish has been making its way into the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for years, and don’t play play – the streak is still going strong in 2026. On March 24, the OED officially added 9 new ...
Discover the new Singlish words, including BTO, wayang and jialat, added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest ...
The next time someone tells you that your English is really jialat, you can get one up on them by showing them that jialat is a real English word. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has been updated ...
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As many of you may already know, Singlish is the English-based creole spoken colloquially within Singapore, and despite the government's efforts over the years with the Speak Good English Movement, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credit: Gervyn Louis on Unsplash On November 11th, the last day of Singapore Writer’s Festival (SWF) 2018, I find myself in ...
As many of you may already know, Singlish is the English-based creole spoken colloquially within Singapore, and despite the government's efforts over the years with the Speak Good English Movement, ...
As a Singaporean-American, I grew up on bits and pieces of my Singaporean heritage, as my parents drilled a handful of the ‘Singlish’ phrases they grew up on into my vocabulary. Around my family, it’s ...