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communities. These names, however, are usually referred to in the dialects of whichever group accords that place a certain name, with some places having entirely different names for the same feature. In most places, however, the same name is used but referred to by an individual's dialect.
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1025:: Tek-á-kha), literally meaning "foot of the small bamboos"), then one of the largest wet markets in Singapore located at the junction of Serangoon and Bukit Timah Road. When the old market was torn down and rebuilt across the road, the new multi-use complex was named
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results in some level of inconsistency. This may be illustrated by the many variants for the same
Chinese characters often found in surnames such as Low, Loh, Lo; Tay, Teh; Teo, Teoh; Yong, Yeong.
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were then spelled in the old way. Today, the village no longer exists, but the cemeteries continue to be referred to as Chua Chu Kang, while all place names in
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1353:Belarusian
1142:2012-05-08
1107:References
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908:cemeteries
898:after the
886:Pe̍h-ōe-jī
881:Càicuògǎng
859:Orang Laut
636:Polylectal
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389:Pe̍h-ūe-jī
322:Pe̍h-ōe-jī
263:Sidney Lau
179:General Wu
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77:Wade–Giles
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1470:Sanskrit
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1400:Georgian
1348:Cyrillic
1311:Armenian
1270:BGN/PCGN
1202:Language
1057:phonemes
963:Nee Soon
900:new town
827:Malaysia
796:Mandarin
722:By place
695:Bopomofo
662:See also
233:Jyutping
29:Mandarin
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1465:Persian
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