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Regarded as a grossly vulgar word in Cantonese, the word has gained a new meaning in Taiwan to refer to "cool". [citation needed] In this context, the Mandarin pronunciation may not be censored on TV broadcasts but the original Cantonese pronunciation is still taboo. Certain euphemisms exist, including siu (小) (small/little), tsiu (超), yiu ...
Diu (Cantonese) This page was last edited on 23 September 2012, at 00:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Triad language is a type of Cantonese slang. It is censored out of television and films. Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton, the authors of "Bad Boys and Bad Language: Chòu háu and the Sociolinguistics of Swear Words in Cantonese," said that regardless of official discouragement of the use of triad language, "[T]riad language or triad-associated language is an important source of ...
Protesters say the owner of Willow Bistro in Canton and her daughter made racist remarks at a recent First Friday event in downtown Canton. The charges stemmed from the July 2 incident.
In Canton, he swears in township police officers, library board members, and township trustees, although because township elections won’t occur until 2024, he has no oaths to administer this week.
A delivery driver was unfairly dismissed from his job an employment tribunal found, after a judge said swearing is more common in the north. Rob Ogden had worked for wholesalers Booker Ltd in ...
This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese restaurant style.
Cantonese is the language of San Francisco Chinatown’s dim sum restaurants and herbal shops, of Northern California towns such as Marysville, where Chinese gold miners settled in the 1850s.