MRT breakdown leads to spelling breakdown as 'Tampines' becomes 'Tampenis'

Spell it like how it sounds they said, it will be fun, they said.

Belmont Lay| October 28, 03:43 PM

Finally, "Tampines" is spelt exactly the way it is pronounced:

"tampenis"#trainbreakdown'>
#spellingalsobreakdown(Photo: Popspoken)

Posted by Popspoken on Wednesday, October 28, 2015

 

Or it could be a Freudian slip.

To the guy at the keyboard: Take a power nap and let your colleague cover you for 10 minutes.

 

Update, Oct. 28, 2015, 4pm:

It turns out, "Tampines" was really spelt "Tampenis" in the early 1900s in Singapore:

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SMRT got it right on Twitter though.

 

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