Is it a "Singapore Core" or "Singaporean Core"?

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Is it a "Singapore Core" or "Singaporean Core"?

In an earlier session of Parliament, the press reported Chan Chun Sing as having told the nation a “Singaporean core is not exclusive to Singaporeans.”

Actually Chan didn’t say that. If you listened carefully to his speech, he used a very different word.

The Labour Chief was very certain that he wanted to push through an idea of a “Singapore Core” and not a “Singaporean Core”.

It doesn’t sound like an accident. He repeated the word 7 times throughout his speech consistently, so we can be sure that he intended it.


Grammatically, there’s only one right answer: it’s Singaporean Core.

Semantically however, a “Singapore Core” means something else altogether. It brings to mind a nation, one people and one entity. This is in stark contrast as compared to the highly divisive, individualistic and self-centred “Singaporean Core”.

So is it “Singapore Core”? Or “Singaporean Core”?

Read his full speech here


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