Vocabularies for party switching in other English-speaking countries
In light of last week’s gale of defections from political parties and the conversations this inspired in the Nigerian public sphere, I have deci
Politics of Grammar
Politics of Grammar
English words that make Nigerians say the opposite of what they mean (II)
This week’s column is a continuation from last week. It’s a compilation of Nigerian English words and expressions that send mixed messages
English words that make Nigerians say the opposite of what they mean
In this week’s column, I bring to light Nigerian English words and expressions that mean the opposite of what they are intended to mean when spo
Menace of fake incomprehensible English accents at Nigerian airports
After I wrote my January 24, 2016 column titled “Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports,” I got feedbac
Some new words English dictionaries have added
With the growth and flowering of corpus linguistics, that is, the systematic study of language usage as it occurs in real life and in real time especi