Shang Antique: Established Since 1984
Although Shang Antique only moved into this unit at the front of Tanglin Shopping Centre sometime within the last year or so, I am willing to believe that the business has existed from 1984...
Monthly Archive: December 2016
Opaque
Once upon a time, I knew that ‘opaque’ had something to do with whether you can see through something, but I thought it was a synonym of ‘transparent’, not an antonym. Since most things...
Painstakingly
For the longest time, I understood how to use the word ‘painstakingly’ but I thought that the action embedded in the adverb was ‘staking one’s pain’ on something, which perhaps I thought meant something...
Excess words
Much has been written, ironically, on the virtue of brevity. On the basis of word choice, I take exception to the advice (found on page 704 of An Introduction to Fiction) to “cut excess...
What You Need to Know about British and American English by George Davidson
I’ve come a long way since the days when I consistently spelled the word ‘British’ with two t’s, which is phonetically intuitive but correct nowhere on the planet. Nevertheless, there were still some new...