24 November 2017 (Friday) – online
Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in
the School of English, : Dr Lisa Lim talks about Indian words enter Oxford
English Dictionary, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.
“Do you know your annas from the your
abbas, your bhindi from your gosht? Indian English words derived from a variety
of subcontinent’s languages follow Chinese guanxi and Singaporean kiasu into
official lexicon”
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Source: SCMP
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