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Local names of many food and drink items have become Singlish and consist of words from different languages and are indicative of the multi-racial society in Singapore. For example, teh is the Malay word for 'tea' which itself originated from Hokkien , peng is the Hokkien word for 'ice', kosong is the Malay word for 'zero' to indicate no sugar ...
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originate from Singaporean Hokkien vulgar word "guai lan 怪𡳞/怪膦" (literally 'strange dick'). 他sibeh guai lan的！ [He is an annoying person!] sua ku 井底之蛙 someone who has not been exposed to the society and is not well-informed about many things from Hokkien word "suaku 山龜" (literally "tortoise on the mountain")
The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language. Among themselves, Singaporeans often speak Singlish, an English creole arising from centuries of contact between Singapore's internationalised society and its legacy of being a British colony.
Singapore English (SgE, SE, en-SG) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Singapore.In Singapore, English is spoken in two main forms: Singaporean Standard English, which is indistinguishable grammatically from British English, and Singaporean Colloquial English, which is better known as Singlish.
kih 涸 kok 木 bo̍k 爲 ūi 舟， tsiu 乞 涸 木 爲 舟， kih kok bo̍k ūi tsiu 砰 pin 嘭 pong 水 tsúi 中 tiong 流， lâu 砰 嘭 水 中 流， pin pong tsúi tiong lâu 門雙 mn̂g-siang 劃槳， u̍ih-hiúnn 門雙 劃槳， mn̂g-siang u̍ih-hiúnn 噝 si 刷 suit 到 kàu 泉州。 tsuân-tsiu 噝 刷 到 泉州。 si suit kàu tsuân-tsiu An example of a folk love ballad ...
The use of word "會" (huì) [literally "can"] is used in colloquial Singaporean Hokkien, and such a use has entered Singapore Mandarin. The sense of 會 as "can" in Standard Mandarin is generally limited to knowledge or skilled ability, such as ability to speak a language, but in Singaporean Mandarin it is broader and closer to the meaning of ...