Please, stop CRACKING YOUR BRAIN

Crack my brain ❌
Wrack my brain ❌
Crack my head ❌
Rack my brain ✅

#nigerianenglish #english #grammar #Englishgrammar #english pronunciation #pronunciation

When you try to correct some people, they quickly claim another variety of English. 😅 Until our #NigerianEnglish dictionary comes out, our transcriptions still read RP. 😉
What’s that face Schola put up at the end? 😂
Pls, tell us your take-home in the comments… 👇
#salomebuari

It was a great poster presentation on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes at the #AAAL 2024 #conference . Thanks to everyone who came around. Safe travels to all attendees.
#NigerianEnglish #AppliedLinguistics #phdlife

Nigerian accent in 1960 😎😎

Refinedng.com

#refinedng #refinednigeria #nigeria #english #nigeria nenglish #independence #1960s #lagos

Speed #Diction Class on a #Wednesday
#elocution #dictioncoachesofnigeria
#executivecoaching #coaching #training #english #nigerianenglish

I speak:🇬🇧🇳🇬pidgin(NigerianEnglish,yoruba)
Learning:🇷🇺🇯🇵🇩🇪
I'd like to learn:🇯🇵
my phone:🇬🇧
my inner voice/accent:🇳🇬
i read books in:🇬🇧🇯🇵(for practice)
Where im born:🇳🇬
Where i live:🇳🇬(get me out😩)
Me:🇳🇬

No need to enclose mama put in quotes. It's an English word and is in the The OED

#NigerianEnglish

#WorldEnglishes #NigerianEnglish #AfricanEnglishes

#NigerianEnglish #WorldEnglishes

'put to bed' means 'give birth'. It's among the Nigerian English words added to the The OED in 2020 (a project I worked on):
oed.com/dictionary/put…

I'm wondering where you got 'put to birth'.

More #NigerianEnglish words on their way.

#NigerianEnglish

NigerianEnglish accents in the 1900s.... >>>>

I enjoyed speaking to MA Linguistics students at Bremen Univ. yesterday on 'Codifying and Standardising #NigerianEnglish '.

Thanks Raute74 for inviting me to give a guest lecture, and my oga Folajimi Oyebola for attending.

#NigerianEnglish

#NigerianEnglish #AfricanEnglishes #WorldEnglishes

A.I.-ese? What markers of writing suggest that your interlocutor might in fact be made up of 1s and 0s?
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Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢 'delves' further into the subject...
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theguardian.com/technology/202…

#Linguistics #AI #WorldEnglishes #Dialect #BusinessEnglish #NigerianEnglish

Incorporating Standard #NigerianEnglish into the higher education curriculum
in
Esimaje, van Rooy, Jolayemi, Nkemleke & Klu, eds. (2023). African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education.

#AfricanEnglishes #ELT

taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

Also: #NigerianEnglish #WestAfricanEnglishes

In Nigeria: 'cross carpeting'
#NigerianEnglish

The moment you come across a statement that starts with the phrase:
“the truth of the matter is…”, then know that you are dealing with a Nigerian.🤦🏽‍♂️
#NigerianEnglish 😃

In reality, all matters are supposed to be true. Truth should be the default standard in everything.
We can