Chinese languages

towel = 浴巾 'ik kun' bathroom = 浴間 'ik king' bath = 'cang ik', some write it as 沖浴, it 廈門方言詞典 as (水on石) 浴. I don't know if there is another word for soap except the loan word 'sap bun'. Both 廈英大辭典 and 廈門方言詞典 have 'sap/sat/siap/suat bun', written as 雪文 or 澀文. Indeed the soap is also called tê-kho˙in ...

> (1) Anybody here that uses "lo5" for "a dozen" 1 "lo" is mean for 12 "dozens", or 144 "pieces". magpie This 12-dozen lo is called 籮 in Chinese, which itself is from the English word "gross." Chinese just used 籮 (bamboo basket) in this tr...

Prof.Ciu says some singapore minnan have eng and ek instead of ing and ik.It must be bad influence from teochew dialect but not because of their ancestors are from southern ciangciu sects. Teochew( ing ,ik ) are (in , it ) 200 years ago. This phenomenon also exists in some parts of Fujian and Taiwa...