The Leeter Spiaking Singlish : Book 3: Loanwords
Author: Gwee Li Sui
ISBN: 9789815009651
RM44.90
Publisher,Marshall Cavendish
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 104
In this third volume, we look at where Singlish words come from: “ There are England terms like ‘ act cute’ and ‘ act blur’ whose meanings we tweak, Melayu ones we keep like ‘ cabut’ and ‘ pakat’ , cheena ones we use like ‘ cheong hei’ or translate into England like ‘ wait long-long’ , Tamil words like ‘ goondu’ and ‘ aiyoh’ , distorted Japanese words like ‘ bakero’ , and so on. Then got phrases made with words from different languages that become something lagi tok kong, such as ‘ buay tahan’ and ‘ jiak kentang’ .
