2 February 2018 (Friday) – online

Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, talks about where the word ‘outstation’ came from, in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language Matters.

“Still used in Singapore, Malaysia and India, the term means “being out of town”, but in Australia and New Zealand, it has a very different implication”

Please click on the following link for the complete article:

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2131576/where-did-word-outstation-come

Source: SCMP