Plumkin:

Interesting. Is there any explanation for the others? Like 'Mutoh car'

Plumkin:

Yes ooo!
Pleayure, meayure,preyyure
magikshians, musikshians,politiktishians
asshume,conshume closh-up,shoap[/b]mutor car
The list is endless,

[b]Some people - accent or not - cannot pronounce 's' and use 'sh' instead! Some also use 'sh' where 's' is appropriate . Some people also cannot pronounce 'r' but use 'l' or 'w' instead! For these people, it is physiological!

I love 'muto car, though! I have always thought it was moto kaaaa until my tisa made me sange my prononsiasion!  

musKeeto:

First of all, you can't expect one who grew up in Nigeria to speak like Kofi Annan.


A very good response. I agree that kids should be exposed to English at a young age, but as long as one schools in Nigeria, the multi ethnic environment one lives in would affect him one way or the other. I'm an Igbo boy that grew up in an Ijaw environment, and it took me some time to stop pronouncing church as shhurch,

At least, we speak better grammar compared to some eastern/asian nations. As long as you are understood, that's fine in my books,

justin04:

[U guy's should get a better job!!!    I guess this is the li[s][/s]st of the problem we're having in 9ja]

Exactly what the thread is about, when you say list and not least.

Kol:

It is a sorry situation. Axe, Ask, section, session, acid and akcid etc, lol

sebastinta:


FOOOOOL!, "MAMC -Must All Mugu Comment" i fink dat should be u, u fink b4 u write or dont write at all MUMU

Zigg:

Nah, I wont call it a dumb thread. Nigerians should be able to speak good English because it's our lingua franca, but we just go about shooting bullets and can never be bothered.

It's not about speaking "FONNE" o! That will be trying to form, especially when you don't have it naturally.

Secondly, mother tongue; yes it does have a great influence on our pronunciation skills, especially when you happen to grow up in your own local environment (although some pesin no they try at all!)

We may not be able to speak Fonne and we may have the mother tongue interference, but for Cripes sakes why can't we make an effort to pronounce words correctly and construct better sentences? That's why you have a dictionary, isn't it? it helps you with pronunciation as well! Some of our parents and Fore-fathers spoke better English than we do these days. I concur with an earlier replier who said it's non-cha-lance and ignorance on our part. like some persons will pronounce "heard" as "Hiard" (Haba!)
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I once listened to a Mechanical Engineering graduate (BSC) on who wants to be millionaire who didn't know what "Family Tree" was! Very shameful if you ask me. Even Frank felt like beating the guy up! Who doesn't like to be around Guys and ladies that speak good English and pronounce words well? I'm sure we are usually impressed by Frank Idoho and other Nigerians with good command of English when we see them on T.V.

It's not to speak big big grammar that is difficult to understand even by the speaker o!, but to be able to pronounce, construct correctly and know the meaning of the the little you know how to speak. Finish!

musKeeto:

don't worry, we'll enyure that they're thought properly
lol, person wey dey complain dey write think as fink, u see as u useful reach,
quit embarrassing yourself, man kuta

maclatunji:


I know, but there is no excuse for the two I posted. I can understand if your local dialect corrupts your pronunciation but there is no 'X' in Yoruba for example so why pronounce 'Ask' as 'Axe'. You obviously have 'SH' sound in Yoruba; why in the world would you call 'Section' instead of 'Session'? It is just laziness and mass-ignorance that pervades our land- it really irritates me.