18 January 2018 (Friday) – online
Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in
the School of English, : Dr Lisa Lim discusses how Asian weight
measurements entered the English language, in her fortnightly Post Magazine
column: Language Matters.
“Measures of weight taken from Malay
and Javanese and in wide use in East Asia were adopted by early European
settlers and passed into English, giving the language caddy – a box for holding
tea”
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Source: SCMP
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