“Fatally wounded,” “declared wanted”: Nigerian Military’s fatally wounded grammar
My email and Facebook inboxes have been inundated with questions about what the Nigerian military truly meant when it said it had“fatally wounde
Politics of Grammar
Politics of Grammar
Aisha Buhari, grammar error types, and response to critics
Last week’s column titled “Aisha Buhari’s Embarrassing Grammatical Infelicities at USIP” elicited three familiar and predictab
Aisha Buhari’s embarrassing grammatical infelicities at USIP
I am aware that this article won’t endear me to several of my thin-skinned Buhari/APC partisan readers who, interestingly, wildly acclaimed my p
Young Senegalese turn to English
English is the world’s lingua franca, but it is also spreading in the world at rates unimagined even by experts. Courtesy of the dominance of Am
“All Protocols Observed,” “Decamping,” Cross-carpeting”: Nigerian English Q and A
Question: Is it “cross-carpeting” or “carpet-crossing”? I could find neither in my dictionary. Do these words exist? If yes, d