Language Matters: Dr Lisa Lim Talks About Indian Words Enter Oxford English Dictionary
7 December 2017 (Thursday)
24 November 2017 (Friday) – online
Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about Indian words enter Oxford English Dictionary, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.
“Do you know your annas from the your abbas, your bhindi from your gosht? Indian English words derived from a variety of subcontinent’s languages follow Chinese guanxi and Singaporean kiasu into official lexicon”
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Source: SCMP