4 November 2016 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses where Hong Kong got ‘amah’, an old word for maidservant, from in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

The term used to mean a Chinese domestic helper, and the Indian variant, ‘ayah’, entered the English language at the height of the British empire, but their roots lie in another former colonial superpower.

Please click on the following link for the complete article:
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2042648/where-hong-kong-got-amah-old-word-maidservant

Source: SCMP