What is Singapore's favourite English Word? The one which everyone use most often?
Does some famous 4 letter word comes to mind? Especially the one that starts with the letter, "F" or "D" or perhaps, "S"?
If you think that's the answer, that means you are not Singaporean enough, or you are too "Beng" or "Lian" liao. (Hokkien term for "gangster" for males and females respectively), or you are a male Singaporean currently holding using 11B as your NRIC. (Serving National Service)
For your information, during my time in NS, we used the 4 letter F word more frequently than all the other english words combined. We would start our sentence in a conversation with the F word, then the context of the sentence that we want to convey across, usually with the F words embedded in it, and end the sentence with yet another F word.
Surprisingly, from the online survey from The British Council, the most favourite English word that Singaporeans like is "Love", followed by the word "Cool", and mom", "dream", "family" and "peace" are the best English words, in no particular order.
Woots. When did Singaporeans become so cool, peace-loving, with dreams of having a family with a mom?
Worst thing is... Am I a Singaporean?
Interesting. Singapore should conduct some more surveys on our favourite words in different languages, like, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil, or perhaps, even Japanese language.
Hmmm.... still wondering. Am i a Singaporean?
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the thing about the poll was that it was a little different from what you may think. i watched what they said on the news and they selected 60 words (corresponding to the 60 years that blah-blah- British thing society/club/association) and it would probably be quite flippant to put those words in the poll
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