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...
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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...
More Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I was frankly taken a little aback by the enormous overflow of enthusiasm with which my series on Nigerian ...
Top 50 Words Nigerians Commonly Mispronounce (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. For the first part of this series click here For the second part, click here. 25. Fatal. The great m...
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