Singapore English in a Nutshell: An Alphabetical Description of Its Features

abbreviation accents adjective adverb bath Bodytalk British called Cambridge Cantonese Chinese Cobuild coffee common in SgE consonant construction countable nouns describe Dictionary especially F Scott Fitzgerald Firstly flats floor foreigners fruit give grammatical hawker hawker centre Hokkien Indian English informal intonation kiasu language letter Longman Malay verb Malay word Malaysia misspellings negative overtones normally omitted Oxford past tense person phrase Platt plural polite preposition Press report pronounced questions reduplication refer schwa Secondly sense sentence SgE and StdE SgE examples SgE expression SgE pronunciation SgE speakers SgE to mean similar simply Singapore English Singapore Standard Singaporean English Singlish singular someone sometimes sounds both sounding spelling spelt StdE listeners Straits stress surprised Swan syllables talk term Tertiary student's essay things uncountable nouns unstressed usually void deck vowel vowel sounds writing