Nlewedim: You Can Have an Igbo English Accent Without Speaking Igbo
By Farooq Kperogi My erudite lawyer friend Kenneth Ikonne’s Facebook comment yesterday about a certain Erica Nlewedim (an Igbo woman who spe...
Showing posts with label Nigerian English pronunciation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian English pronunciation. Show all posts
Why There’s No Such Thing as “Correct” or “Incorrect” Pronunciation
By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday’s light-hearted post about African English pronunciations using the example of how Nigerians, Kenyans, and Gha...
"Wok, Wak, Wek!"—The African English Accent Showdown
By Farooq Kperogi If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you'll notice three unmistakable "accent ca...
Google as "goggle" and WhatsApp as "whatsUp": Illiterate Pronunciations in Nigeria
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Why do most Nigerians, including educated Nigerians, pronounce Google as "goggle...
Why Nigerians Can’t Pronounce “Nigeria” Correctly
By Farooq A; Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The only Nigerians who pronounce the name of their country "correctly"...
Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I developed a heightened sensitivity to the frustratingly incompetent affectatio...
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