4 Vocabulary
As far as the vocabulary of Singapore’s Standard English is concerned, there
are two main areas of interest: semantics and lexical borrowing. At the level
of semantics, we can distinguish between words common to most standard
Englishes, but used with a different semantics in Singapore, and words that
have been recombined to form lexical items with special local relevance.
Borrowings from non-English languages occur, too, with some even making
it into the Oxford English Dictionary — at which point it is questionable,
of course, whether such words are still solely Standard Singapore English.
Colloquial Singapore English, on the other hand, has a vocabulary that draws
much more heavily on borrowings.
4 VocabularyAs far as the vocabulary of Singapore’s Standard English is concerned, thereare two main areas of interest: semantics and lexical borrowing. At the levelof semantics, we can distinguish between words common to most standardEnglishes, but used with a different semantics in Singapore, and words thathave been recombined to form lexical items with special local relevance.Borrowings from non-English languages occur, too, with some even makingit into the Oxford English Dictionary — at which point it is questionable,of course, whether such words are still solely Standard Singapore English.Colloquial Singapore English, on the other hand, has a vocabulary that drawsmuch more heavily on borrowings.
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