when i arrived in the US, my Singlish accent threw so many Americans off they could barely understand me, some even thought English was our second language feeling embarrassed, i started compiling the key differences between Singlish and American English pronunciation the main difference i noticed is we Singaporeans actually pronounce a lot of everyday words very differently for “th”, Singaporeans usually replace it with a harder “t” or “d” so “three stops” becomes “tree stops” “this one” becomes “dis one” which sounds completely normal until you say it to an American we also tend to shorten our vowels a lot words we use all the time like “food court”, “carpark” or “Grab” come out super clipped, while Americans stretch their vowels much more another big one is where we put the stress in a word even words like “McDonald’s”, “opportunity” or “delivery” can somehow sound completely different just because we stress a different syllable and probably the biggest difference is how we end words Singaporeans tend to barely pronounce the final consonant so “take Grab”, “wait”, “card” or “last stop” can end super abruptly to us it sounds perfectly clear to Americans it sometimes sounds like we deleted half the word 💀 never really noticed any of this until Americans kept asking me to repeat myself