Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Discusses the Inclusion of ‘guanxi’ and ‘Chinese Helicopter’ in the Oxford English Dictionary

15 July 2016 (Friday) – online      17 July 2016 (Sunday) – hardcopy

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses the inclusion of Asian English words in the Oxford English Dictionary in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“The March update of the Oxford English Dictionary included some 500 new entries, many from Asian varieties of English. For Filipinos this was a ‘kilig’ moment. Singaporeans, on the other hand, engaged in heated debate as to whether certain words and terms were worthy (‘chilli crab’), spelt correctly (‘ang moh’), really Singapore English (‘lepak’), or exist at all (‘Chinese helicopter’).”

Source: SCMP

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