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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Where English Took the Words “Tycoon” and “Honcho” from
27 October 2017 (Friday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about where English took the words “tycoon” and “honcho” from, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “Though one sounds Chinese, and the ...
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Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About the Origin of the Word “pyjamas”
12 October 2017 (Thursday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about the origin of the word “pyjamas”, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters. “How the word entered the English lexicon, and how the garment was adopted...
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SCMP Health & Environment 08-10-2017 (Sunday) Josy Chow Pui-shan, who was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disorder that gradually destroys physical abilities such as walking and breathing, urged the government to introduce nusinersen, marketed as Spinraza, the first appr...