By Singlish, Numbers

In one of my English usage books, it is stated that 'handphone' is Singlish (Singapore English). The writer, a professor, says that it should not be used. If the word is mainly used in S.E. Asia, it should be avoided. If it is used in England or America, then it may be accepted one day. I've...

Native speaker of english, is someone who has been speaking in english since young. In addition, he/she is able to write well, speak well, listen well, read well, anything which is in english. He/she does not have to keep translating ideas from other languages to english. Ideas just come out in...

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...