The Small World of Singlish Words
The Small World of Singlish Words is our lab’s ongoing attempt to collect free associations for uniquely Singaporean words, like shiok, diam, sian, and chope. We hope to collect enough free associations in order to build the first cognitive language network of Singapore English words. Here is a rudimentary network of the word “shiok”!
The word association game is very simple: all you have to do is to type out the first few words that come to your mind when presented with one of our Singlish words.
Research is now open to the public! Simply click here and begin! Thank you for your contributions to science :)
This project was inspired by the Small World of Words project. If you would like to receive updates on the project, drop us an email at singlishwords@nus.edu.sg, or check out our social media pages below:
If you are a reporter/journalist, I would be happy to chat with you about our latest findings about Singapore English - feel free to get in touch!
Our research on Singlish word associations has been featured in The Business Times, Channel News Asia, Lianhezaobao and The HomeGround Asia.