dammyjay93:
4. “Loose/lose.”Many Nigerians use the word “loose” as in: loose women), lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility (as in: “Goodluck Jonathan’s loose tongue”).



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Like seriously? GEJ? Hmnn!

My brother spear us d details, since we copy America system of Government, that is why we are equally copying their english and spellings e.g. The spelling of centre b4 is CENTRE but now is CENTER.

jerseyscustom:

Oga mi you have spoken

Oga at the "topest"am loyal

I've out-grown a few of them that gave me a ticking. I think professor was the last and it took a tyranical professor to erase any doubt.

Pvictor10:

Like seriously? GEJ? Hmnn!

ROTFL

Trust me, the most commonly misused homonyms are ARSE and ASS

Fit2Rule: Trust me, the most commonly misused homonyms are ARSE and ASS

I mean A.R'SE and A.SS,
Chai NL! There is God ooo... OK A.R'SE and A-S:S..

Abeg make I add my own........

SURPRISED not SUPRISED

2ndOGA:

The poster is merely implying that you can't join the two words together. i.e It's Good Luck not Goodluck.

when did u become doyin okukpe?

Thank you @op

I learned something today....
Op, thanks a lot.

Chimex388: Inplace of writing Arsenal n Liverpool will loose, dey will write chelsea....its wrong!!!
*runs away, even pass blessing Okagbare for road*

Chimex388, you no dey gree hear word abi? Lose not loose, pls refer to OP for good grammar.

pls add "formal" used in place of "former"

dammyjay93: lol... I bet it's no 7

when u remember BRIGHTER GRAMMAR, then u dont need to think about d spelling anymore.

It is not intresting, it is INTERESTING. !!!!

Not trecking but trekking...But really, I think d problem is in our pronunciation nt spelling...Also, some people don't know d difference between American english and British english..We're not supposed to mix both when writing..

san316: Ok. The one i notice is how we interchange it's and its. The first means 'it is' while the other is a possessive pronoun. Some people instead of saying 'married woman' they say 'marriage woman'. And for me, i have issues spelling words having vowels 'I' and 'E' together. Eg, deceive, recieve, concieve. *i'm not sure if i spelt them correctly.

You can avoid misspelling words that contain the -ie or -ei vowel combination by memorizing the following:
Write 'I' before 'e'
Except after 'c'
Or when it sounds like 'a'
As in neighbour and weigh.
Exceptions to this rule include: caffeine, either, foreign, height, leisure, neither, protein, their and weird.
There are also words in which the combination follows the letter 'c' and should be spelled 'ei' but is actually spelled 'ie'. In all of these words, the letter 'c' is pronounced like 'sh' e.g. Ancient, conscience, deficient, efficient, proficient and sufficient.

DMilanista: You can avoid misspelling words that contain the -ie or -ei vowel combination by memorizing the following:
Write 'I' before 'e'
Except after 'c'
Or when it sounds like 'a'
As in neighbour and weigh.
Exceptions to this rule include: caffeine, either, foreign, height, leisure, neither, protein, their and weird.
There are also words in which the combination follows the letter 'c' and should be spelled 'ei' but is actually spelled 'ie'. In all of these words, the letter 'c' is pronounced like 'sh' e.g. Ancient, conscience, deficient, efficient, proficient and sufficient.

"I" before "e" except after c...Yes but there are exceptions e.g seize..

The day someone said 'what God has joined together let no man put hands under'... I fainted.

fairheven: U sayin,good and luck can not co-exist?Are u indirectly saying,mr.president is not good luck but,bad luck? Doyin Okukpe over to you

But really,I want to ask...if we have an American-English,Australian-English an Canadian-English,then why cant we have Nigerian-English?

simple.. Enof of following diz white trolls like moles self... .....

ZACHIE:

AFTER ALL it is.

Got it. Some of these words are so confusing.

You try no be small

killercute16: Nice write up op.....jus learnt smtin today.

I am guilty of number 3 group of mistakes where i use alot, atimes, and the rest.

rattlesnake: OK not k

okay not ok

destante: I am guilty of number 3 group of mistakes where i use alot, atimes, and the rest.

Still trying to figure how to pronounce your moniker. Distant? D'estante'? Dante?

There is no big deal in these spellings please. if you attended a good primary school these should not be a problem.

Nice one jaaare ....Good Luck Ebere Jonathan = GLEJ and not GEJ as most Nigerians abbreviated it ....be warned! Signed Reuben Abati

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Chimex388, you no dey gree hear word abi? Lose not loose, pls refer to OP for good grammar.

tank u o jare, sometimes these words 've formed a habit, more like instincts....i have hear.....sori....i have heard

culled from invincible teacher

johnstar: aww u r so cute...

thnks

Thewhizzkid1:
"I" before "e" except after c...Yes but there are exceptions e.g seize..

yeah, u r right. I mentioned some up there.