Written in Singlish—the folksy patois of Singapore that combines English, Mandarin, Malay and Chinese dialects including Teochew and Hokkien—Sarong Party Girls has a narrative voice that’s a ...

"30th got school meh it's a Sunday leh." If we asked an average American what this online message means and what they can discern about its author, they would likely be baffled. But if we asked a ...

All this because of what the authorities deemed “excessive use of Singlish.” Given the tough crackdown, you would expect Singlish to be a harmful substance that might corrupt our youth ...

SINGAPORE: The narratives surrounding Singlish has dominated both the public and academic imagination. Singlish has had her share of supporters and detractors. Supporters of Singlish believe that ...

Some worry, however, that the island's unique patois known as Singlish could be lost, and with it an important cultural glue unifying the multiethnic, multi-religious city-state of 5.1 million people.

The word "can" has two different meanings in Singapore's local creole, Singlish. "Singlish doesn't really differentiate between 'can' and 'may,'" said a Singlish guidebook author. The author ...

On November 11th, the last day of Singapore Writer’s Festival (SWF) 2018, I find myself in the strange position of having to explain Singlish to a foreigner. A backpacker from Taiwan, she happened to ...