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singlish-dictionary

What is Singlish?

Colloquial Singaporean English, better known as Singlish, is an English-based creole language[1][2][3] spoken in Singapore.

Singapore's government has long insisted that everyone in the island nation should speak English - it's the language used in schools, at work, and in government. But in practice many people speak a hybrid language that can leave visitors completely baffled - Singlish.

Objective

This repository is a collection of known, published Singlish 'dictionary' words.

Download / View the compiled list of Singlish here.

Use case

Easily enumerate and find a specific Singlish word in the dictionary using the updated list.

To do !!

Work in progress to actually scrap the sites to retrieve all Singlist words.

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