Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know (II)
15. “Show me your guns.” “Guns” is an American English slang term for upper-arm muscles or biceps, so “show me your guns
Politics of Grammar
Politics of Grammar
Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know
In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is observed every February, I have decided to share with my readers African-American Engli
Orwellian doublespeak about Buhari’s health
Doublespeak is intentional manipulation of language to conceal uncomfortable truths or to cleverly tell outright lies. The term came to us from George
American Influences in Nigerian English
The trouble with labeling anything American English these days is that American English is now actually international English, which is unrelentingly
A linguistic prejudice called native -speakerism
There are more non-native English speakers in the world than there are native speakers, and non-native English speakers who learned English systematic