Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng
Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng
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‘Add oil’ entry in Oxford English Dictionary is just latest Cantonese phrase to hit mainstream

A look at the process and significance of landing a place in the world’s most authoritative record for the English language

Topic |   Cantonese
Ernest Kao
Ernest Kao

Updated: 10:36am, 18 Oct, 2018

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Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng
Photographer Tugo Cheng’s ‘Add Oil’ (2016) from his City Patterns series. Photo: Tugo Cheng
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