Suck My Constituency
There's a quaint volume of articles on Singapore written around 1920 which I like to refer to for the odd history-based term paper. So there I was, browsing through it for a group project on government-level conservation measures since the colonial era. And I found this jolly extract:
I don't know if this is a typographical error, Freudian slip, or the accepted transliteration of the name at that time. Whatever the case, this historical nugget is glossed over in official documents. But it sure has Talkingcock potential: I can already picture a story titled "Tampines Residents Demand Reversion to Original Name"...
View the full page here.
If anyone's interested, the full citation for the book is
Makepeace, Walter E. and Braddell, Roland St. John and Brooke, G. S., eds. One Hundred years of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. 2 vols. Reprint. Originally published in London, 1921.
I don't know if this is a typographical error, Freudian slip, or the accepted transliteration of the name at that time. Whatever the case, this historical nugget is glossed over in official documents. But it sure has Talkingcock potential: I can already picture a story titled "Tampines Residents Demand Reversion to Original Name"...
View the full page here.
If anyone's interested, the full citation for the book is
Makepeace, Walter E. and Braddell, Roland St. John and Brooke, G. S., eds. One Hundred years of Singapore. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. 2 vols. Reprint. Originally published in London, 1921.
posted by The Empty Signifier @ 4/11/2005 11:23:00 am
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2 Comments:
sift through books written on singapore's history pre-1950 and the weirdest names pop up. this i say from personal experience.
and here's another: back in the early 1990s, a tiny gas station along old tampines road did spell it as "tampenis". perhaps the station manager did know his history better than any of us.
Heh! I like it!
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