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The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012. It was formerly called the Hongkong Standard and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom [when?] but partially reverted to The Standard in 2001. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) is its main local competitor.
Standard and recognisable accent; research has demonstrated the existence of, and local preference for, a local Hong Kong English accent Distinctive vocabulary ; local media, such as newspapers , clearly show a shared common vocabulary used among English speakers in Hong Kong [6]
English Accents and Dialects Searchable free-access archive of 681 speech samples, England only, wma format with linguistic commentary; Britain's crumbling ruling class is losing the accent of authority An article on the connection of class and accent in the UK, its decline, and the spread of Estuary English
Hong Kong Free Press ( HKFP) is a free, non-profit [1] news website based in Hong Kong. It was co-founded in 2015 by Tom Grundy, [2] [3] who believed that the territory's press freedom was in decline, to provide an alternative to the dominant English-language news source, the South China Morning Post, and to cover the pro-democracy movement.
S. South China Morning Post. The Standard (Hong Kong) The Star (Hong Kong) The SUN (Hong Kong) Sunday Examiner.
The Chinese language newspapers Headline Daily and Oriental Daily News have the highest shares in the Hong Kong newspaper market, while the Hong Kong Economic Times is the best-selling financial newspaper. The Standard, a free tabloid with a mass market strategy, is the most widely circulated English newspaper by a significant margin. Its rival ...
Yue: Cantonese. Jyutping. laap6 coeng4 san1 man4*2. Stand News ( Chinese: 立場新聞) was a free non-profit online news website based in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2021. Founded in December 2014, it was the successor of House News. It primarily focused on social and political issues in Hong Kong, and generally took a pro-democracy editorial position.
Naming In English Among linguists, Standard Chinese has been referred to as Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin. It is colloquially referred to as simply Mandarin, though this term may also refer to the Mandarin dialect group as a whole, or the late imperial form used as a lingua franca. [16] "Mandarin" is a translation of Guanhua (官話 ; 官话 ; 'bureaucrat speech ...