Sharing about English Lesson

Singapore English (especially Singapore Colloquial English, or Singlish) is often thought to be shorter and sweeter than Standard English, but this is not always the case.

As this example, seen in a shopping mall in Singapore, shows, the Standard English term, department store (which has its own entry in the Oxford Advanced Learner�s Dictionary), is in fact shorter than the Singapore English equivalent, departmental store.

For a discussion of departmental store in Singapore English, see Adam Brown�s Singapore English in a Nutshell: An Alphabetical Description of its Features (Federal, 1999) or English Language Myths: Thirty Beliefs that Aren�t Really True (McGraw-Hill, 2006).