I enjoyed this video. A "tour of the British colony of Singapore in 1938" video footage in YouTube:The narrator sounds "uppity" and stereotypically stiff-upper-lip British. He pronounced "Malay" as "May-Lay" (the way we say it sounds like "Mer-Lay", without the pronounced "r").That was a time when Singapore was owned by the British Empire. "Singaporeans" came into existence only 27 years later.When this part of the region was known as "The Far East" and "The Orient". Its inhabitants commonly...
