Bengawan Solo Kueh Lapis hunting at Singapore Airport Terminal 2. (12th January 2010)

[TheSpeaknoevil]

• Singaporeans pronounce 'flour' as /flɑ:/. A girl who grew up in the US went to a Singapore school and was 'corrected' to pronounce flour as /flɑ:/ instead of /flaʊ-ə/.

Singaporean teachers pronounce and teach their pupils to pronounce flour as / flɑ:/. And in an oral examination, if this word appears in the reading passage, the pupils who pronounce it correctly are penalised.

---- I'd like native speakers from England, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to post in to prove me right.

[capturedbytee]

@TheSpeaknoevil You're right as rain, at least that's the way I was taught almost 3 decades ago. Are they still teaching it that way today?

[expertise1990]

Bengawan Solo kueh lapis is superb lapis, best on earth !

[capturedbytee]

@expertise1990 You're damn right it is.