Politics of Grammar

Politics of Grammar

“Medicated Glasses,” “Food is Sweet,” “I Want to Ease Myself”: Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions

In this edition, I answer several questions on Nigerian English usage and on the differences between American and British English usage. Enjoy. Questi

The logic behind Donald Trump’s simplistic english

Sometime ago, on this page, I shared the findings of a study that showed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the level of a

Subsidy, deregulation, liberalization: Nigerian English’s most abused terms

The Buhari government’s battle to strangulate the masses through petrol price increase and other infernal neo-liberal policies is being fought o

Fuel price hike: The language and grammatical illogic of a regulated deregulation

Language is a powerful tool often used by the ruling elite to control narratives and to structure and constrain the thought-process of subordinate gro

Popular everyday English expressions we inherited from Shakespeare (II)

This week’s column is a sequel to last week’s. For readers who missed the first part, I pointed out that in April ( which is Shakespeare&r