Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Where the Word “Congee” Comes From

10 November 2017 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, : Dr Lisa Lim talks about where the word congee comes from, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“The dish is frequently associated with East Asian cuisine but the term originated in India – from the Tamil kanji”

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http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2119163/where-word-congee-comes-answer-may-surprise-you

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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Where English Took the Words “Tycoon” and “Honcho” from

27 October 2017 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, : Dr Lisa Lim talks about where English took the words “tycoon” and “honcho” from, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“Though one sounds Chinese, and the other Basque, these two terms for powerful people both entered the lexicon from Japan; one was subsequently used as a nickname for Abraham Lincoln”

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http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2117111/where-english-took-words-tycoon-and-honcho-you-may-be

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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About the Origin of the Word “pyjamas”

12 October 2017 (Thursday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about the origin of the word “pyjamas”, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“How the word entered the English lexicon, and how the garment was adopted by Europeans – though not initially as nightwear”

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http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2115038/where-word-pyjamas-comes-or-it-pajamas

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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Why it is Hard to Argue There is One Chinese Language

29 September 2017 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about why it is hard to argue there is one Chinese Language, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“To a linguist ‘the Chinese language’ is a family of languages – not dialects – that for the most part are mutually unintelligible and written different ways; an appreciation of this variety would help discussions about language policy”

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http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2113222/cantonese-mandarin-its-all-one-big-family

Source: SCMP