Category:English

In 1819, an Englishman, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles colonised Singapore and made her into a Port of importance in term of Trade in Southeast Asia. Being a British Colony in the early stage of her history, Singapore main adminstration language has become English and high percentage of early Singapore population began learning English to work in Goverment and Adminstrative jobs. In modern Singapore, though our national language is Malay, English is taught in Schools as the main language and we can consider almost all modern Singaporeans are English proficient. Below are a some Acronyms, shorthands and hybrid that Singaporean use today.