Nigerian English Words You Won’t Find in Any Modern Dictionary
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nigerian English is filled with words that are either exclusively invented by Nig...
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Showing posts with label English errors. Show all posts
Nigerian Words and Expressions that are Untranslatable into English
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I’d planned to write this article last week, but the egregiousness of the grammatica...
“Outrightly,” “Faithfuls,” “Graduands”: Q and A on Nigerian English and Learner Errors
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Over the past few days, I was dragged into many online arguments about the gramm...
Aisha Buhari, Grammar Error Types, and Response to Critics
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week’s column titled “Aisha Buhari’s Embarrassing Grammatical Infelicities ...
Aisha Buhari’s Embarrassing Grammatical Infelicities at USIP
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I am aware that this article won’t endear me to several of my thin-skinned Buhar...
Native English Speakers’ Struggles with Grammar
I saw this interesting June 19, 2012 article in the Wall Street Journal titled“This Embarrasses You and I: Grammar Gaffes Invade the ...
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