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Nigeria: How Nigerian English May Cause You to Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer
Daily Trust, 26 October 2014
Have you ever sent an email to someone or some people in the United States, Canada, Britain or some other English-speaking Western country and didn't get a response? Read more »
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Nigeria: More Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce
Daily Trust, 31 March 2013
I was frankly taken a little aback by the enormous overflow of enthusiasm with which my series on Nigerian English mispronunciations was received. Although I wrote the series in… Read more »
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Nigeria: Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce (III)
Daily Trust, 24 March 2013
25. Fatal. The great majority of Nigerians pronounce this word just the way it's written: "fa-tal." I had thought that our pronunciation is close to the preferred British… Read more »
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Nigeria: Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce (I)
Daily Trust, 10 March 2013
I have finally yielded to the pressures of my readers who said I should write on Nigerian (mis)pronunciations of common English words. I was initially reluctant to write this for a… Read more »