Language in Brunei

I was just watching a documentary made in Singapore by Goh Chiew Tong, a journalist with CNA, talking about food donated to old people. In...

A few days ago, I discussed the Malay for 'social distancing'. Apparently, it is penjarakan sosial . Unfortunately, penjarakan is ...

I have done lots of work on misunderstandings involving World Englishes; but we should remember that people in the UK and USA misunderstand ...

How do you say 'polygon'? Traditionally it was [ˈpɒlɪgən] in British English. But increasingly, according to Lindsay (2019), it is b...

How do you say 'mosquito'? According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, the most common pronunciation is [məˈskiːtəʊ]; but an ...

How do you pronounce 'vaccine'? I have always pronounced it as [ˈvæksiːn], with stress on the first syllable; but today I heard an i...

What's the Malay for 'social distancing'? This morning, I was listening to a speech (mostly) in Malay by a government minister ...

In my class this morning, I was talking about language change and how some words that once were common are now rarely used; and I suggested...

I find it incredibly depressing how the mainstream media always focus on bad news. Take the headline from a Guardian report dated 28 Decembe...

I have recently been watching the BBC series Civilisation, produced and narrated by Kenneth Clark in 1969; and some of his pronunciation is ...

There is a fascinating example concerning speech perception arising from a speech by Boris Johnson during the current general election in th...

I have been doing some work on the pronunciation of Kedayan. ( See here for more details.) One of the most salient features of Kedayan is ...

My year-one UBD exam had the following question: A digraph is two letters in the spelling that are used to represent a single sound. What i...

Yesterday, I went on a Brunei Nature Society outing, to visit the sago factory in Tutong District. One of the highlights was the chance to t...

This morning, I was listening to presentations from three of my students who have been on attachment with Royal Brunei, and the following se...

At a talk given by Dr Victor King to the Brunei Nature Society on Monday 21 October, he suggested that the word orangutan was actually inve...

I was just reading an article in The Guardian about spurious concerns over the decline in the English language. It quotes the British broad...

I just read a UK news report in The Guardian in which there was a quote from Jo Swinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats: Boris Johnson...

Research continues at UBD on the pronunciation of Dusun. The following website highlights recent efforts: http://fass.ubd.edu.bn/research/d...

How should I pronounce 'Sultan'? Should it be [sʊltən] (the first syllable rhyming with 'full')? Or should it be [sʌltən] (t...