For example, a drinking straw, called a xiguan (literally "sucking tube") or xishuiguan (" water sucking tube ") in standard Mandarin, is called a shuicao (" water grass") in the Chinese used locally. No matter how they try, it's unlikely that a non-Malaysian Chinese speaker would ever guess that these seemingly unrelated words actually mean the same thing.
例如喝飲料用的「吸水管」（吸管）本地的說法是「水草」，外地讀者大概敲破腦袋也不能把這兩件風馬牛不相及的東西聯想起來吧。