“Add weight,” “on my mind”: Q and A on Nigerian English usage
Question: I had a conversation with a native English speaker sometime ago. In the course of our conversation, I said something about “adding wei
Politics of Grammar
Politics of Grammar
Saving dying languages through poetry
Globalization is shrinking the linguistic map of the world at rates that alarm some linguists. In this October 13, 2017 originally article titled &ldq
Semantic bleaching in English
Just like skin bleaching is the chemically induced lessening of the melanin of a dark or brown person’s skin, semantic bleaching occurs when a w
Why non-Western languages have limited vocabularies for color
I have always wondered why my native Baatonum language and several Nigerian languages I am familiar with have no word for a vast array of colors. Colo
Old forgotten English words we should start using again
Language is always in a state of flux. It hardly ever happens that archaisms stage a comeback in languages. However, lately, people have developed an