(1) Also
In SgE, also tends to occur in one of two positions. It may occur immediately after the subject: ‘I also don’t know’. This tends to happen when also qualifies the subject (in this case, I). Alternatively, it may occur at the end of the sentence: ‘He sells cars also’. This tends to occur when also qualifies some other element in the sentence (in this case cars).

In GenE, also normally occurs before the main verb (or after a main verb be), regardless of the sentence which it qualifies: ‘He also sells cars’, ‘I am also a Libra’. If a GenE speaker wishes to ass an element at the end of the sentence, it has to be too or as well, not also: ‘I am a Libra too’, ‘He sells cars as well’.

(2) Irregardless
The words regardless and irrespective have identical meanings; compare “He carried on regardless/ irrespective of the danger”. However, these two words are regularly blended by many SgE speakers to give the new form irregardless: ‘He carried on irregardless of the danger’.

(3) Last time
The phase last time is used in SgE to mean ‘previously’ or even ‘a long time ago’, perhaps in the speaker’s childhood: ‘Last time I worked at Chan Brothers’. ‘Last time Raffles Hotel was on the seafront’.

In GenE, there are two meanings to the word time, one uncountable (Can you tell me the time?) and one countable (How many times has Mr Lee phoned?). Last time can only refer to the countable sense, and therefore means ‘on the last occasion’: ‘I am confident of passing my driving test this time. Last time I only failed by two points’.

(4) Like what
The phrase like what occurs in two main expressions in SgE: ‘So like what’ and ‘like what like that’. In both, like what means that something is so bad that words fail to describe. This could be used of almost anything: someone’s poor dress sense, a tastelessly flashy car, someone’s objectionable behaviour.

(5) Put up
The verb regularly used in SgE for staging a show is put up: ‘They put up a performance of Hamlet’. However, there is another meaning to the verb put up in SgE, namely ‘live’; for example, ‘Where do you put up?’ means ‘Where do you live?’ This verb has a similar meaning in GenE, but always refers to temporary accommodation. ‘We can put you up in the spare bedroom’ or ‘We’ll put up with friends for the night’. The SgE usage does not carry the same overtones of temporariness.

(6) Stay
In SgE, the question ‘Where do you stay?’ does not imply any kind of temporary arrangement, as it does in GenE (e.g. staying in a hotel). It is equivalent to the GenE ‘Where do you live?’ (to describe a long-term situation)

(7) Throw
The word throw in SgE covers the meaning expressed by both GenE throw and throw away. In GenE, for throw away, the particle away must be there: ‘He threw away the torn shirt’. The SgE sentence ‘He threw the torn shirt’ is ambiguous to GenE speakers as it may mean either ‘he discarded the shirt as useless’ or ‘he propelled the shirt through the air with his hand’.

Source : “Making Sense of Singapore English” by Adam Brown. Published by Federal Publications (S) Pte Ltd.