Wednesday 29 April 2015

1554 HKSAR Name of the Day

Katiryn Cheung Suen, Hung Hom, Hong Kong (SCMP letters 28 April 2011)

About Novel HKSAR Names
Name Category: Rare

2 comments:

  1. aimlesswanderer2 June 2015 at 16:16

    Reminds me of bogan names, where they have made up "unique" (most people think plain weird) or slightly modified normal names.

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  2. Thanks AW. Low education levels has been suggested for the proliferation of novel names in the English language. Think about unique or weird names that originate from communities like African-Americans in the US and Bogans in Australia.

    So, do Asian communities, who have little or no knowledge of grammar and "proper" English culturalisms also fall into this "school of thought"? There's certainly a case for it.

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