This column first appeared on Thursdays in the print and online editions of the People's Daily for more than a year. I transferred it to Sunday Trust (now called the Daily Trust on Sunday), the Sunday edition of the Daily Trust, on May 1, 2011. I stopped the column in December 2018. You will find below links to previous articles that appeared in the print and online editions of the People's Daily and the Daily Trust on Sunday.
Many articles that were serialized for two or more weeks have been compressed here as one. My book, inspired largely by the articles in my column, came out in 2015 and is titled Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World. You can buy it from Amazon by following this link.
55. The Arabic Origins of Common Yoruba Words
56. Idioms, Mistranslation, and Abati's Double Standards
57. Native English Speakers' Struggles with Grammar
58. Q and A on Nigerian English and Usage Rules
59. Of Yoruba, Arabic, and Origins of Nigerian Languages
60. Language Families in Nigeria
61. Are There Native English Speakers in Nigeria?
62. The English Nigerian Children Speak (I)
63. The English Nigerian Children Speak (II)
64. Reader Comments and My Responses to "The English Nigerian Children Speak"
65. Q and A on American English Grammar and General Usage
66. Q and A on Prepositions and Nigerian Media English
67. Americanisms Popularized by American Presidential Politics (I)
67. Americanisms Popularized by American Presidential Politics (II)
68. Top 10 Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English (I)
69. Top 10 Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English (II)
70. Q and A on English Salutation, Punctuation and Other Usage Problems
71. More Q and A on a Variety of Grammar Usage Issues
72. Top 10 Outdated and/or Made-up Words in Nigerian English
73. Q and A on Outdated Nigerian English Words and Expressions
74. 20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback
75. Q and A About Jargon and Confusing Expressions
76. President Goodluck Jonathan's Grammatical Boo-boos
77. How Political Elite Influence English Grammar and Vocabulary
78. Use and Misuse of "Penultimate" in Nigerian and Native English
79. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce I
80. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce II
81. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce III
82. More Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce
83. Q and A on Nigerian English and Old English Expressions Frozen in Modern English
84. Q and A on Miscellaneous Nigerian English Grammar Issues
85. Battle for the Simplification of English Spellings
86. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People I
87. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People II
88. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People III
89. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People IV
90. Between Useless and Useful Tautologies I
91. Between Useless and Useful Tautologies II
92. Q an A on Concord, Archaism and Nigerian English Usage
93. Q and A on Nigerian and American University Terminologies
94. Bad Grammar about Grammar in Nigerian English
95. Multilingual Illiteracy: What Nigeria Can Learn From Algeria's Language Crisis
96. Influence of American English on Nigerian English
97. Patience Jonathan's "Son" and Other Fictive Kinship Terms in Nigerian English
98. Patience Jonathan's Peculiar Grammar
99. Phrank Shaibu: A Shameless, Serial Plagiarist of My Grammar Column
100. Of Phrank Shaibu, Ojiofoh, and What Plagiarism Is and Isn't
101. The African Origins of Common English Words II
102. The African Origins of Common English Words III
103. The African Origins of Common English Words IV
104. The African Origins of Common English Words V
105. Q and A on Nigerian English Grammar and Pronunciation
106. Q and A on English Usage and Idiomatic Translations
107. Q and A on Errors in Nigerian Media English Usage
108. My Favorite Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English (I)
109. My Favorite Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English (II)
110. Q and A on Grammar, Gender, "Alumni" and "Thuggery"
111. Q and A on Religious English, Usage and Punctuation
112. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (I)
113. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (II)
114. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (III)
115. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (IV)
116. Q and A on the Grammar of Food, Usage and Nigerian English
117. Q and A on English plurals, Word Usage and Expressions
118. Q and A on Latin Plurals, Media English and Nigerian English
119. 25 Black American English Expressions You Should Know (I)
120. 25 Black American English Expressions You Should Know (II)
121. Colloquial American English Expressions I Learned from Malcolm X
122. Q and A on Idiomatic Expressions, Pronunciation and West African English
123. Q and A on Nigeria's and Anglophone Africa's Strange Political Expressions
124. 12 Most Popular Archaisms in Nigerian English
125. Q and A on Expressions, Usage, and Pronunciation
126. 12 Popular Misusages in Nigerian English (I)
127. 12 Popular Misusages in Nigerian English (II)
128. Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions and Other Usage Concerns
129. A Socio-linguistic Analysis of Patience Jonathan's Recent Televised Histrionics
130. Q and A on Grammar of the Nigerian Constitution, Politicians, and Word Formation
131 A Pragmatic Analysis of "Emir," "Sarki," "Oba" and "Chief" in Nigerian English
132 Why the Nigerian English Phrase "South-South" is Bad English
133. Top 10 Negative English Words with Positive Meanings
134. Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
135. Re: Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
136. 5 Words Native English Speakers Never Ever Use for Themselves
137. Q and A on Titles, Genericization, and Sundry Grammar Usage Rules
138. When and How to Use "In" and "On" in Some Fixed Expressions
139. Q and A on Grammar and Usage of Popular Expressions
140. Q and A on Comparison of Nigerian and Native Varieties of English
141. Top 10 University Student Slang Words in Popular Nigerian English
142. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer I
143. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer II
144. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer II
145. Q and A on Word Usage and Confusing Expressions
146. Anglophilia and Dying Nigerian Languages: A Personal Narrative
147. New Words in Oxford Dictionaries You Should Know
148. More New Words in Oxford and Other Dictionaries
149. Q and A on Grammar, Fixed Expressions, Nigerian English and Briticisms
150. President Jonathan's Awkward Grammatical Miscues on the Campaign Trail
151. Q and A on Nigerian English Learner Errors
152. Is "Febuhari" Nigerian English's Most Creative Pun?
153. Q and A on the English Usage of Nigerian Politics and Politicians
154. Q and A on Sundry Grammar and Usage Concerns
155. Q and A on Nigerian English Salutations, Pronouns, and Usage
156. "Corrections" Nigerian Newspaper Grammar Columnists Consistently Get Wrong
157. Q and A on Grammar, Usage, Politics, Election, and Nigerian English
158. Curious Parliamentary Vocabularies in Nigeria's American-Style Presidential Democracy
159. Common Election-Related Grammatical Errors Nigerian Journalists and Politicians Make
160. Popular Expressions English Borrowed from Other Languages
161. From Febuhari to General March for Buhari: Buhari's Linguistic March to Aso Rock
162. Q and A on English Usage in Politics, Elections, Ethnic Descriptions, and Dialectal Variation
163. Q and A on Nigerian English and Gendered Language
164. Guest Column: Incredible Indian English
165. A Grammatical and Rhetorical Analysis of President Buhari's Inaugural Speech
166. "Past is Prologue" and Other Presidential Inaugural Turns of Phrase
167. Nigerian Pentecostal Christian English Expression in Popular Nigerian English I
168. Nigerian Pentecostal Christian English Expressions in Popular Nigerian English II
169. My Book on Nigerian English is Finally Out!
170. Response to the Critique of My Critique of Buhari's Inaugural Speech
171. Q and A on Titles, Grammaticality of "Treasonable Felony" and Other Expressions
172. Q and A on Nigerian Media English, Usage and, American and British English Punctuations
173. Shakespearean Expressions that Sound Illiterate by Today's Standards
174. ALTA Language Services' Interview with me on Glocal English
175. Q and A on Idioms and Common Nigerian English Usage
176. How English is Changing Languages in the World
177. In Jamaica, English is a Girlish Language
176. From Febuhari to "Wailing Wailers": Linguistic Creativity Decline of the Buhari Brand
177. Q and A on Nigerian Media English Misusage, Demonyms, and Word Usage
178. Q and A on the Grammar of Titles and Forms of Address
179. 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About English that May Shock You
181. El-Rufai's Kufena Hills and Metaphors of Death in Nigerian Public Discourse
182. "Barbing Salon" or Barbing Saloon"? Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
183. "Academician" Or "Academic"? Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage
184. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (I)
185. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (II)
186. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (III)
187. Q and A on Grammar, Usage, and Naming Conventions in Nigeria, America and Britain
188. "Body Language," "Screen Touch," "Say Me Well": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage and Expressions
189. Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
190. Re: Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
191. Gullah: The Fascinating African-Inflected Black American English Dialect
192. Nigerian and Muslim Personal Names Among the Gullah of Georgia and South Carolina
193. African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
194. African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect II
195. Ooni of Ife's Strange Theory of the Yoruba Origins of English
196. Why Nigerians Can't Pronounce "Nigeria" Correctly
197. Nigerian Languages Are More Closely Related Than You Think
198. "Premium Motor Spirit Otherwise Known As Petrol" and Other Petrol-Related Grammatical Boo-Boos
199."Ghost Workers," "Dowry," "Johnny Just Come": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
200. Popular Everyday English Expressions We Inherited from Shakespeare (I)
201. Popular Everyday English Expressions We Inherited from Shakespeare II
202. Fuel Price Hike: The Language and Grammatical Illogic of a Regulated Deregulation
203. Subsidy, Deregulation, Liberalization: Nigerian English's Most Abused Terms
204. "Medicated Glasses," "Food is Sweet," "I want to Ease Myself": Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions
205. "In all Ramifications," "Happy Iftar": Q and A on Nigerian and Global English Usage
206. "Face the Full Wrath of the Law": Q and A on Nigerian, American and British English
207. Surprising Link Between Grammar, Magic, and Nigerian English
208. The Origins of These Common English Words Will Surprise You
209. Aisha Buhari's Embarrassing Grammatical Infelicities at USIP
210. Aisha Buhari, Grammar Error Types, and Response to Critics
211. "Fatally Wounded," "Declared Wanted": Nigerian Military's Fatally Wounded Grammar
212. Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Why Hausa is a "Unique" Language
213. Transformation of "Change" from God Term to Devil Term in Nigeria
214. "Budget Padding," "Racist Economist," "Tenants of Democracy": English on the Move
215. Top 5 Expressions That Should Be Banned in Nigerian English
216. "Outrightly," "Faithfuls," "Graduands": Q and A on Nigerian English and Learner Errors
217. Q and A on Idioms, Nigerian English, American English and British English
218. Myth of the Decline in Standard of English Usage and Grammar
219. Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year Describes Trumpism and Buharism
220: "Flag Off," "Going Rogue," General Secretary": Q and A on English Usage and Expressions
221. "Titled" or "Entitled," "On a Platter of Gold," "Wide Off the Mark": Grammar Q and A
222. Q and A on American English, Nigerian English and Kenyan English
223. Fascinating History Behind Common English Expressions
224. My Word of the Year? Dalung's "Spended." Here's Why
225. Top 10 Words That Trended in Nigerian English in 2016
226. No, Petrol Isn't Otherwise Known as "Premium Motor Spirit"
227. Princes, Not Kings, Are Called "His Royal Highness"
228. American Influences in Nigerian English
229. Orwellian Doublespeak About Buhari's Health
230. Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know
231. "Naming Ceremony," "Turbaning," "Disvirgin": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
232. "An Advice," "A Good News": Errors of Pluralization in Nigerian English
233. Why There Are No Native Speakers of Standard English
234. English, Indigenous Language Instruction, and National Development
235. English in Nigeria: India Not an Exemplary Model
236. "Core North," "in the Social Media": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
237. Q and A on the Semantics of "Vice President as Coordinator" and "Chook"
238. "How Was Your Night?" "Antidote to": Grammar and Usage Q and A
239. Pig by Other Names: the Multiple Names for Pig and Pig Meat in English
240. Names for Disguised Alcoholic Drinks in English
241. 15 Words English Borrowed from Arabic
242: Geographic Gentilisms: How We Use Geography to Hide Our Prejudice
243. Soyinka's "Be Rest Assured," "Learned Colleague," and Other Grammar Q and A
244. "English Graduate" or "Graduate of English," Ngugi's Grammar, "Iconoclastic Oba" and Other Usage Q and A
245. "Reason Why," "All right/Alight," "Letterheaded Paper": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
246. Hello Bello: How "Bello" Became Nigeria's Most Ecumenical Name
247. "It's You Who Are": Q and A on Contentious Grammar Rules
248. When and How to Use "in" and "on" in Some Fixed Expressions
249. "Police is Your Friend," "Fire for Fire": Q and A on Nigerian English Errors
250. Old Forgotten English Words We Should Start Using Again
251. Semantic Bleaching in English
252. "Add Weight," "On My Mind": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
253. "Economy Grows by 1.4%": Grammar Q and A on a Senator's Tweet
254. English Mumpsimuses, a Senator's Tweet, and Lesson in Tenses
255. "Moslem," "Journey Mercies," "Stayed Blessed": Q and A on Nigerian Religious English and More
256. Boss Mustapha and Silly, Ungrammatical Titular Vanity among Nigerian Politicians
257. "Pregnant for a man," "Spinster," "Thuggery": Nigerian English Q and A
258. Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis
259. Re: Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis
260. The Self-Isolation of Native English Speakers
261. Soyinka's "K-leg" English and My Word of the Year
262. A Case for "Flashing to be in Dictionaries
263. In Defense of Tautology in English
264. Gullah: An African-American English Dialect No One Understands
265. Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange Personal Names Among America’s Gullah People
266. African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (I)
267. African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (II)
268. “Who is Fooling Who?” Q and A on Popular Usage Errors
269. “Emir of Yorubaland”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Term“Emir”
270. Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (I)
271. Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (II)
272. A Critical Grammatical Analysis of Buhari’s “Lazy Youth”Comment
273. Nigerian and American English Clash in Fake Pro-Buhari Trump Quotes
274. No, “Mosque” Doesn’t Come from “Mosquito”
275. “Sannu da Shan Ruwa,” or “Eku Ongbe,” is Untranslatable into English
276. Buhari’s Democracy Day Speech is a Grammatical Embarrassment
277. Nigerian Words and Expressions that are Untranslatable into English
278. Response to Defenders of Presidential Grammatical Boo-Boos
279. Menace of Fake Incomprehensible English Accents at Nigerian Airports
280. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (I)
281. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (II)
282. Vocabularies for Party Switching in Other English-Speaking Countries
281. Do We Lose Our Emotions When We Speak English as a Second Language?
282. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (III)
283. It’s “Academic,” not “Academician” Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage
284. Nigerian English Words You Won’t Find in Any Modern Dictionary
285. Touchscreen, not Screen touch, number plate, not plate number: Nigerian English Q and A
287. "Barbing Salon,” “On a Platter of Gold” Not Standard English: Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
289. How Buhari is Changing Nigerian English (II)
290. Some Guidance on the Use of the Prepositions “on” and “in”
291. “Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud
292. “Working Experience” “Request for”: Q and A on Grammar, Usage, Expressions
293. “Mesu Jamba,” the Question of Etymological Fallacy, and Other Reactions
294. Atiku and the Meaning of an “Orphan” in English
295. Three “Misspellers” that Mystify Me
296. Recent Grammatical Howlers of Nigerian Politicians
297. Germans Are More Crazy About Titles Than Nigerians Are
298. Who Should be Called a "Dr"? A Physician or a PhD?
299. Nigerian Lawyers Misunderstand “Learned Colleague”/“Learned Profession”
300. Impeachment Does NOT Mean Removal From Office
301. Impeachment: Response to an Ill-informed Law Lecturer called Sylvester Udemezue
302. Lionheart’s Oscar Rejection and Place of English in Nigerian Identity
303. Google as "goggle" and WhatsApp as "whatsUp": Illiterate Pronunciations in Nigeria
304. Why Hausa is a Fascinating Language
305. 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons
306: Why Do Nigerians Call "Fufu" "Swallow"?
307. It is “as of” NOT “as at”
Many articles that were serialized for two or more weeks have been compressed here as one. My book, inspired largely by the articles in my column, came out in 2015 and is titled Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World. You can buy it from Amazon by following this link.
1. A Comparison of Nigerian, American and British English
2. Why is "Sentiment" Such a Bad Word in Nigeria?
3. Ambassador Aminchi's Impossible Grammatical Logic
4. 10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
5. Sambawa and "Peasant Attitude to Governance"
6. Adverbial and Adjectival Abuse in Nigerian English
7. In Defense of "Flashing" and Other Nigerianisms
8. Weird Words We're Wedded to in Nigerian English
9. American English or British English?
10. Hypercorrection in Nigerian English
11. Nigerianisms, Americanisms, Briticisms and Communication Breakdown
12. Top 10 Irritating Errors in American English
13. Nigerian Editors Killing Macebuh Twice with Bad Grammar
14. On "Metaphors" and "Puns" in Nigerian English
15. Common Errors of Pluralization in Nigerian English
16. Q & A About Common Grammatical Problems
17. Semantic Change and the Politics of English Pronunciation
2. Why is "Sentiment" Such a Bad Word in Nigeria?
3. Ambassador Aminchi's Impossible Grammatical Logic
4. 10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
5. Sambawa and "Peasant Attitude to Governance"
6. Adverbial and Adjectival Abuse in Nigerian English
7. In Defense of "Flashing" and Other Nigerianisms
8. Weird Words We're Wedded to in Nigerian English
9. American English or British English?
10. Hypercorrection in Nigerian English
11. Nigerianisms, Americanisms, Briticisms and Communication Breakdown
12. Top 10 Irritating Errors in American English
13. Nigerian Editors Killing Macebuh Twice with Bad Grammar
14. On "Metaphors" and "Puns" in Nigerian English
15. Common Errors of Pluralization in Nigerian English
16. Q & A About Common Grammatical Problems
17. Semantic Change and the Politics of English Pronunciation
41. Most Popular Mangled Expressions in Nigerian English
42. Q and A on Grammar
43. More Q and A on Grammar
44. Q and A on Usage, Articles, and Tenses
45. Top Hilarious Differences between American and Nigerian English
46. The Grammar and Vocabulary of "Fuel Subsidy Removal"
47. Top 10 Words That Are Changing Meaning
48. Q and A on African English and Common Usage Errors
49. Nigerian English as Excuse for Sloppy Scholarship
50. Reuben Abati's Violence Against Metaphors
51. Grammar of Reuben Abati's Semantic Violence
52. Top 10 Grammatical Errors Common to Americans and Nigerians
53. Q and A on Idioms, Nigerian Expressions and Punctuations
54. Q and A on Metaphors and Usage
42. Q and A on Grammar
43. More Q and A on Grammar
44. Q and A on Usage, Articles, and Tenses
45. Top Hilarious Differences between American and Nigerian English
46. The Grammar and Vocabulary of "Fuel Subsidy Removal"
47. Top 10 Words That Are Changing Meaning
48. Q and A on African English and Common Usage Errors
49. Nigerian English as Excuse for Sloppy Scholarship
50. Reuben Abati's Violence Against Metaphors
51. Grammar of Reuben Abati's Semantic Violence
52. Top 10 Grammatical Errors Common to Americans and Nigerians
53. Q and A on Idioms, Nigerian Expressions and Punctuations
54. Q and A on Metaphors and Usage
56. Idioms, Mistranslation, and Abati's Double Standards
57. Native English Speakers' Struggles with Grammar
58. Q and A on Nigerian English and Usage Rules
59. Of Yoruba, Arabic, and Origins of Nigerian Languages
60. Language Families in Nigeria
61. Are There Native English Speakers in Nigeria?
62. The English Nigerian Children Speak (I)
63. The English Nigerian Children Speak (II)
64. Reader Comments and My Responses to "The English Nigerian Children Speak"
65. Q and A on American English Grammar and General Usage
66. Q and A on Prepositions and Nigerian Media English
67. Americanisms Popularized by American Presidential Politics (I)
67. Americanisms Popularized by American Presidential Politics (II)
68. Top 10 Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English (I)
69. Top 10 Peculiar Salutations in Nigerian English (II)
70. Q and A on English Salutation, Punctuation and Other Usage Problems
71. More Q and A on a Variety of Grammar Usage Issues
72. Top 10 Outdated and/or Made-up Words in Nigerian English
73. Q and A on Outdated Nigerian English Words and Expressions
74. 20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback
75. Q and A About Jargon and Confusing Expressions
76. President Goodluck Jonathan's Grammatical Boo-boos
77. How Political Elite Influence English Grammar and Vocabulary
78. Use and Misuse of "Penultimate" in Nigerian and Native English
79. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce I
80. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce II
81. Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce III
82. More Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce
83. Q and A on Nigerian English and Old English Expressions Frozen in Modern English
84. Q and A on Miscellaneous Nigerian English Grammar Issues
85. Battle for the Simplification of English Spellings
86. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People I
87. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People II
88. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People III
89. Top 30 Common English Words That Are Derived from Names of People IV
90. Between Useless and Useful Tautologies I
91. Between Useless and Useful Tautologies II
92. Q an A on Concord, Archaism and Nigerian English Usage
93. Q and A on Nigerian and American University Terminologies
94. Bad Grammar about Grammar in Nigerian English
95. Multilingual Illiteracy: What Nigeria Can Learn From Algeria's Language Crisis
96. Influence of American English on Nigerian English
97. Patience Jonathan's "Son" and Other Fictive Kinship Terms in Nigerian English
98. Patience Jonathan's Peculiar Grammar
99. Phrank Shaibu: A Shameless, Serial Plagiarist of My Grammar Column
100. Of Phrank Shaibu, Ojiofoh, and What Plagiarism Is and Isn't
101. The African Origins of Common English Words II
102. The African Origins of Common English Words III
103. The African Origins of Common English Words IV
104. The African Origins of Common English Words V
105. Q and A on Nigerian English Grammar and Pronunciation
106. Q and A on English Usage and Idiomatic Translations
107. Q and A on Errors in Nigerian Media English Usage
108. My Favorite Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English (I)
109. My Favorite Exclamatory Expressions in Nigerian English (II)
110. Q and A on Grammar, Gender, "Alumni" and "Thuggery"
111. Q and A on Religious English, Usage and Punctuation
112. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (I)
113. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (II)
114. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (III)
115. Useless Repetitions You Should Avoid in English (IV)
116. Q and A on the Grammar of Food, Usage and Nigerian English
117. Q and A on English plurals, Word Usage and Expressions
118. Q and A on Latin Plurals, Media English and Nigerian English
119. 25 Black American English Expressions You Should Know (I)
120. 25 Black American English Expressions You Should Know (II)
121. Colloquial American English Expressions I Learned from Malcolm X
122. Q and A on Idiomatic Expressions, Pronunciation and West African English
123. Q and A on Nigeria's and Anglophone Africa's Strange Political Expressions
124. 12 Most Popular Archaisms in Nigerian English
125. Q and A on Expressions, Usage, and Pronunciation
126. 12 Popular Misusages in Nigerian English (I)
127. 12 Popular Misusages in Nigerian English (II)
128. Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions and Other Usage Concerns
129. A Socio-linguistic Analysis of Patience Jonathan's Recent Televised Histrionics
130. Q and A on Grammar of the Nigerian Constitution, Politicians, and Word Formation
131 A Pragmatic Analysis of "Emir," "Sarki," "Oba" and "Chief" in Nigerian English
132 Why the Nigerian English Phrase "South-South" is Bad English
133. Top 10 Negative English Words with Positive Meanings
134. Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
135. Re: Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
136. 5 Words Native English Speakers Never Ever Use for Themselves
137. Q and A on Titles, Genericization, and Sundry Grammar Usage Rules
138. When and How to Use "In" and "On" in Some Fixed Expressions
139. Q and A on Grammar and Usage of Popular Expressions
140. Q and A on Comparison of Nigerian and Native Varieties of English
141. Top 10 University Student Slang Words in Popular Nigerian English
142. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer I
143. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer II
144. How Nigerian English May Cause You To Be Mistaken for a 419 Email Scammer II
145. Q and A on Word Usage and Confusing Expressions
146. Anglophilia and Dying Nigerian Languages: A Personal Narrative
147. New Words in Oxford Dictionaries You Should Know
148. More New Words in Oxford and Other Dictionaries
149. Q and A on Grammar, Fixed Expressions, Nigerian English and Briticisms
150. President Jonathan's Awkward Grammatical Miscues on the Campaign Trail
151. Q and A on Nigerian English Learner Errors
152. Is "Febuhari" Nigerian English's Most Creative Pun?
153. Q and A on the English Usage of Nigerian Politics and Politicians
154. Q and A on Sundry Grammar and Usage Concerns
155. Q and A on Nigerian English Salutations, Pronouns, and Usage
156. "Corrections" Nigerian Newspaper Grammar Columnists Consistently Get Wrong
157. Q and A on Grammar, Usage, Politics, Election, and Nigerian English
158. Curious Parliamentary Vocabularies in Nigeria's American-Style Presidential Democracy
159. Common Election-Related Grammatical Errors Nigerian Journalists and Politicians Make
160. Popular Expressions English Borrowed from Other Languages
161. From Febuhari to General March for Buhari: Buhari's Linguistic March to Aso Rock
162. Q and A on English Usage in Politics, Elections, Ethnic Descriptions, and Dialectal Variation
163. Q and A on Nigerian English and Gendered Language
164. Guest Column: Incredible Indian English
165. A Grammatical and Rhetorical Analysis of President Buhari's Inaugural Speech
166. "Past is Prologue" and Other Presidential Inaugural Turns of Phrase
167. Nigerian Pentecostal Christian English Expression in Popular Nigerian English I
168. Nigerian Pentecostal Christian English Expressions in Popular Nigerian English II
169. My Book on Nigerian English is Finally Out!
170. Response to the Critique of My Critique of Buhari's Inaugural Speech
171. Q and A on Titles, Grammaticality of "Treasonable Felony" and Other Expressions
172. Q and A on Nigerian Media English, Usage and, American and British English Punctuations
173. Shakespearean Expressions that Sound Illiterate by Today's Standards
174. ALTA Language Services' Interview with me on Glocal English
175. Q and A on Idioms and Common Nigerian English Usage
176. How English is Changing Languages in the World
177. In Jamaica, English is a Girlish Language
176. From Febuhari to "Wailing Wailers": Linguistic Creativity Decline of the Buhari Brand
177. Q and A on Nigerian Media English Misusage, Demonyms, and Word Usage
178. Q and A on the Grammar of Titles and Forms of Address
179. 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About English that May Shock You
180. "My Names Are," "Comity of States," and Other "Ministerial Screening" Grammatical Murders
181. El-Rufai's Kufena Hills and Metaphors of Death in Nigerian Public Discourse
182. "Barbing Salon" or Barbing Saloon"? Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
183. "Academician" Or "Academic"? Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage
184. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (I)
185. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (II)
186. A Comparison of Everyday University Vocabularies in Nigeria, America, and Britain (III)
187. Q and A on Grammar, Usage, and Naming Conventions in Nigeria, America and Britain
188. "Body Language," "Screen Touch," "Say Me Well": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage and Expressions
189. Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
190. Re: Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
191. Gullah: The Fascinating African-Inflected Black American English Dialect
192. Nigerian and Muslim Personal Names Among the Gullah of Georgia and South Carolina
193. African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
194. African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect II
195. Ooni of Ife's Strange Theory of the Yoruba Origins of English
196. Why Nigerians Can't Pronounce "Nigeria" Correctly
197. Nigerian Languages Are More Closely Related Than You Think
198. "Premium Motor Spirit Otherwise Known As Petrol" and Other Petrol-Related Grammatical Boo-Boos
199."Ghost Workers," "Dowry," "Johnny Just Come": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
200. Popular Everyday English Expressions We Inherited from Shakespeare (I)
201. Popular Everyday English Expressions We Inherited from Shakespeare II
202. Fuel Price Hike: The Language and Grammatical Illogic of a Regulated Deregulation
203. Subsidy, Deregulation, Liberalization: Nigerian English's Most Abused Terms
204. "Medicated Glasses," "Food is Sweet," "I want to Ease Myself": Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions
205. "In all Ramifications," "Happy Iftar": Q and A on Nigerian and Global English Usage
206. "Face the Full Wrath of the Law": Q and A on Nigerian, American and British English
207. Surprising Link Between Grammar, Magic, and Nigerian English
208. The Origins of These Common English Words Will Surprise You
209. Aisha Buhari's Embarrassing Grammatical Infelicities at USIP
210. Aisha Buhari, Grammar Error Types, and Response to Critics
211. "Fatally Wounded," "Declared Wanted": Nigerian Military's Fatally Wounded Grammar
212. Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Why Hausa is a "Unique" Language
213. Transformation of "Change" from God Term to Devil Term in Nigeria
214. "Budget Padding," "Racist Economist," "Tenants of Democracy": English on the Move
215. Top 5 Expressions That Should Be Banned in Nigerian English
216. "Outrightly," "Faithfuls," "Graduands": Q and A on Nigerian English and Learner Errors
217. Q and A on Idioms, Nigerian English, American English and British English
218. Myth of the Decline in Standard of English Usage and Grammar
219. Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year Describes Trumpism and Buharism
220: "Flag Off," "Going Rogue," General Secretary": Q and A on English Usage and Expressions
221. "Titled" or "Entitled," "On a Platter of Gold," "Wide Off the Mark": Grammar Q and A
222. Q and A on American English, Nigerian English and Kenyan English
223. Fascinating History Behind Common English Expressions
224. My Word of the Year? Dalung's "Spended." Here's Why
225. Top 10 Words That Trended in Nigerian English in 2016
226. No, Petrol Isn't Otherwise Known as "Premium Motor Spirit"
227. Princes, Not Kings, Are Called "His Royal Highness"
228. American Influences in Nigerian English
229. Orwellian Doublespeak About Buhari's Health
230. Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know
231. "Naming Ceremony," "Turbaning," "Disvirgin": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
232. "An Advice," "A Good News": Errors of Pluralization in Nigerian English
233. Why There Are No Native Speakers of Standard English
234. English, Indigenous Language Instruction, and National Development
235. English in Nigeria: India Not an Exemplary Model
236. "Core North," "in the Social Media": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
237. Q and A on the Semantics of "Vice President as Coordinator" and "Chook"
238. "How Was Your Night?" "Antidote to": Grammar and Usage Q and A
239. Pig by Other Names: the Multiple Names for Pig and Pig Meat in English
240. Names for Disguised Alcoholic Drinks in English
241. 15 Words English Borrowed from Arabic
242: Geographic Gentilisms: How We Use Geography to Hide Our Prejudice
243. Soyinka's "Be Rest Assured," "Learned Colleague," and Other Grammar Q and A
244. "English Graduate" or "Graduate of English," Ngugi's Grammar, "Iconoclastic Oba" and Other Usage Q and A
245. "Reason Why," "All right/Alight," "Letterheaded Paper": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
246. Hello Bello: How "Bello" Became Nigeria's Most Ecumenical Name
247. "It's You Who Are": Q and A on Contentious Grammar Rules
248. When and How to Use "in" and "on" in Some Fixed Expressions
249. "Police is Your Friend," "Fire for Fire": Q and A on Nigerian English Errors
250. Old Forgotten English Words We Should Start Using Again
251. Semantic Bleaching in English
252. "Add Weight," "On My Mind": Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
253. "Economy Grows by 1.4%": Grammar Q and A on a Senator's Tweet
254. English Mumpsimuses, a Senator's Tweet, and Lesson in Tenses
255. "Moslem," "Journey Mercies," "Stayed Blessed": Q and A on Nigerian Religious English and More
256. Boss Mustapha and Silly, Ungrammatical Titular Vanity among Nigerian Politicians
257. "Pregnant for a man," "Spinster," "Thuggery": Nigerian English Q and A
258. Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis
259. Re: Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis
260. The Self-Isolation of Native English Speakers
261. Soyinka's "K-leg" English and My Word of the Year
262. A Case for "Flashing to be in Dictionaries
263. In Defense of Tautology in English
264. Gullah: An African-American English Dialect No One Understands
265. Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange Personal Names Among America’s Gullah People
266. African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (I)
267. African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (II)
268. “Who is Fooling Who?” Q and A on Popular Usage Errors
269. “Emir of Yorubaland”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Term“Emir”
270. Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (I)
271. Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (II)
272. A Critical Grammatical Analysis of Buhari’s “Lazy Youth”Comment
273. Nigerian and American English Clash in Fake Pro-Buhari Trump Quotes
274. No, “Mosque” Doesn’t Come from “Mosquito”
275. “Sannu da Shan Ruwa,” or “Eku Ongbe,” is Untranslatable into English
276. Buhari’s Democracy Day Speech is a Grammatical Embarrassment
277. Nigerian Words and Expressions that are Untranslatable into English
278. Response to Defenders of Presidential Grammatical Boo-Boos
279. Menace of Fake Incomprehensible English Accents at Nigerian Airports
280. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (I)
281. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (II)
282. Vocabularies for Party Switching in Other English-Speaking Countries
281. Do We Lose Our Emotions When We Speak English as a Second Language?
282. English Words that Make Nigerians Say the Opposite of What They Mean (III)
283. It’s “Academic,” not “Academician” Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage
284. Nigerian English Words You Won’t Find in Any Modern Dictionary
285. Touchscreen, not Screen touch, number plate, not plate number: Nigerian English Q and A
287. "Barbing Salon,” “On a Platter of Gold” Not Standard English: Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
288. How Buhari is Changing Nigerian English (I)
289. How Buhari is Changing Nigerian English (II)
290. Some Guidance on the Use of the Prepositions “on” and “in”
291. “Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud
292. “Working Experience” “Request for”: Q and A on Grammar, Usage, Expressions
293. “Mesu Jamba,” the Question of Etymological Fallacy, and Other Reactions
294. Atiku and the Meaning of an “Orphan” in English
295. Three “Misspellers” that Mystify Me
296. Recent Grammatical Howlers of Nigerian Politicians
297. Germans Are More Crazy About Titles Than Nigerians Are
298. Who Should be Called a "Dr"? A Physician or a PhD?
299. Nigerian Lawyers Misunderstand “Learned Colleague”/“Learned Profession”
300. Impeachment Does NOT Mean Removal From Office
301. Impeachment: Response to an Ill-informed Law Lecturer called Sylvester Udemezue
302. Lionheart’s Oscar Rejection and Place of English in Nigerian Identity
303. Google as "goggle" and WhatsApp as "whatsUp": Illiterate Pronunciations in Nigeria
304. Why Hausa is a Fascinating Language
305. 7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons
306: Why Do Nigerians Call "Fufu" "Swallow"?
307. It is “as of” NOT “as at”
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