Hello! I had a project meeting at Changi Airport 2 days ago and being a Westerner (I live at Buona Vista), I spent a relatively long amount of time in the MRT. This provided me with ample time to stare at various signs when I got bored of my music. the 'mind the platform gap' sign caught my attention as it brought to mind the 'watch the gap' sign used in New York's subway stations, for it again demonstrated the variation in lexical priming for different groups of English speakers, for they have different words for the same purposes. Here are pictures I took of Singapore's(second picture) MRT sign and one I found on the web of NY's.
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