No, “mosque” doesn’t come from “mosquito”
Several months ago, a couple of people drew my attention to a Facebook status update by a certain Dr. Idris Ahmed, who I understand lives in the UK. T
Politics of Grammar
Politics of Grammar
Nigerian and American English clash in fake pro-Buhari Trump quotes
I have stated several times that one of the goals of this column is to equip my readers with what I have called “multi-dialectal linguistic comp
How British English is creeping on American English
It’s by now traditional to talk about how American English is taking over the world and even supplanting British English in Britain itself. It&r
A critical grammatical analysis of Buhari’s “lazy youth” comment
I’ve read claims on social media that President Muhammadu Buhari is being unfairly vilified because he never mentioned the word “lazy&rdqu
Top 10 usage errors in Nigerian English (II)
6. “Herbalist.” In Nigerian English, a herbalist is a witch doctor, a practitioner of black magic, and sometimes a ritual murderer or an e