It's skool, mummy, and other spellbound issues...

I wonder why foreign property developers keep targeting Singaporeans as potential buyers. Their ads appear everyday! This one below hawks a new condo project in Phuket...

Some are written in a strange form of English...

Last seen miracle? (And notice that not a few of the ads make reference to Sentosa ie if you are not in the uber-rich class, you can still own a Sentosa-like property elsewhere.)

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Unfortunately, there are also badly worded local (non-property) ads, like these two...

World's most awarded airport? World's most awarded airline? What kind of grandfather's English is that?

Meanwhile, our spelling is based on the British variant, so why this?...

SBF, the organisation in question, is local, not a foreign one. So, why "Center" and not "Centre"? Also, just what is "The Altitude of Success"?

And I don't get the idea behind misspellings like this...

Mummy: Johnny, how do you spell S-C-H-O-O-L?
Johnny: It's S-K-O-O-L, mummy. Why are you such a dummy? Can't you see the sign outside my kindie?

Hopefully, Singapore's standard of English won't deteriorate to that of the unidentified country here:

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Finally, National Day is approaching -- Singapore will be 48 years old! -- and I must  bring out (if I can find them) the car wing-mirror flags I bought last year:

On the subject of the national flag, there was this ST reader's poser:

I thought the reader was right, until SIA replied:

Ah so. Now we know!