Tagged: Singlish

Don’t put an ‘s’ on “clothing”. Ever. Just don’t.

… but not both? Another problem with conjunctions! The intent is: Report all the suspicious individuals and all the suspicious items you notice. But it’s getting confused with: If you see a suspicious individual...

Whoops! The sign in front of this shop in the basement of United Square is implying that healthy Korean food is usually not delicious. I mean, okay, maybe, but that’s not what you want...

I’ve posted about errors in signs declaring business hours before. A giant European home furnishings company you may have heard of is among the businesses that have gotten it wrong. Why should the phrase...

Georgia-Pacific is a paper company headquartered in my hometown, Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia-Pacific Tower, a pink granite building shaped like three tiers of steps, came into being about the same time I did. It’s...

Pluralized uncountable nouns are a pet peeve of mine. The one that’s most frequently publicly wrong is ‘equipments’ because it’s posted at every construction site, and there are a lot of construction sites. equipments...

Nice new 12-story building? Check. Nifty quasi-anatomical logo? Check. Building signs checked by English expert? Nope. The signs in this waiting area at the National Heart Centre Singapore say “Main Wait” when they should...

The word ‘alight’ didn’t used to really be part of my vocabulary, probably because in the US we had a car and we drove ourselves everywhere we couldn’t walk or fly. In Singapore we...