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Year:
1819
Short description:
Stamford Raffles founds British colony of Singapore
Medium description:
[colony or just trading post. Piercy states originally as a trading post coming undercomplete sovereign control in the 1820s]
Tags:
history of English
in Singapore
Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.321]
Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.50]
Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.177]
Pennycook, A. (1994). The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. Harlow: Longman [p.80]