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queen2 (f)
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Here u write some spelling your not sure about, u know Nigeria accent is different from uk as well as US sometimes the way something is written is not the way it is pronounced
example
Schedule
is it skedule shedule
i know bristish pronunciation is different
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shahan (f)
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Like. . .
tif for 'thief'
and
rog for 'rogue'?
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drrionelli (m)
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Well, queen2, as I understand it:
SKEDD-yool is the American English pronunciation whereas
SHEDD-yool is the United Kingdom English pronunciation.
@shahan: Are those the UK pronunciations you've posted?
@topic:
This could be not only fun, but also very informative for a lot of us!
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Raymand (m)
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Wicked stuff. . .
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lysaa (f)
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route pronounced like
raut & root
lol, its funny but thats how it is./////
towel pronounced as
taawl & towell in naija accent
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English1 (f)
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One thing I've noticed is that Nigerians like to say every letter that appears in a word, but in British English sometimes letters are missed out when you say it. Like salmon - not sal-mon. We say sa-mon. Also, Th is sometimes pronounced just 't'. River Thames = Tems. Thomas = tomas. Theresa = Teresa. we are not very logical! 
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LadyT (f)
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 Great topic here are a few I hear and cant stand in naija accent Sweetheart = sweetrat Honey = Onknee Go slow = ghost slow
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kellorah (f)
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warris it? = what is it 
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debosky (m)
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embrazing - embarassing
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GeeCee (m)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENT
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! More komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
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queen2 (f)
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embrazing - embarassing
 Great topic here are a few I hear and can't stand in naija accent Sweetheart = sweetrat Honey = Onknee Go slow = ghost slow  funny
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drrionelli (m)
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Very clever, GeeCee! 
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watever (f)
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@ GeeCee that is hilarious 
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lysaa (f)
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@queen2
i find those two posts quite funny as well. some even pronounce it this way;
sweerat= sweetheart
beautiful= beauriful
goodmorning as goodmoring
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Raymand (m)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENT
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! More komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.
Ahahahahahahaha, brilliant stuff so we're back to the german again. . .LOL 
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LadyT (f)
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Wait a minute = wayray mini
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mrpataki (m)
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Vex = Verse!
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LadyT (f)
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Cheer up = Chair up
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lysaa (f)
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lol
how about
chair up = share up
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mrpataki (m)
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Cheque book = shenk book
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queen2 (f)
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All them warra min, norrin irritates me
some pronunciation of uk places especially, there was a time when someone asked me where a place called Addiscombe is, she pronounced it as Addis comb beh, if u get i want mean
and another is southwark, she pronounced it sout work, instead of suddock, also wimbledon, she pronounced it wimblairdone
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Eastcoast (f)
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@Lady T, O my gosh, girlllllllllllllllllllll, you are funnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. It is true. The one i have noticed is that we don't pronounce "R" in most words. Ex:
ART === ATT
CAR === Kaaa
another one is the "TON" pronounciation
EX:
RESTON ==== RESTONE
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LadyT (f)
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Chocolate = shocolate
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LadyT (f)
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Get off = Ge ruff
Oh man = oh mayne
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lysaa (f)
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something=sontin e.g this sontin i want to tell you is sontin u should hear.  LMAO
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Honey_pot (m)
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And what's the big deal in how nigerians pronounce some ingrish english words, what will u say about the spoken english of some shainis chinese  . infact, brits should be happy all tri three levels of our edukeson edukechon education were in english and we are this good with their language. How many of them can speak igbo, yoruba, efik, ijaw or hausa? and aaawwwwwww, they pronounce my name with an accent 
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LadyT (f)
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Honey pot get out you are spoiling the topic we are making fun of ourselves! 
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Honey_pot (m)
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Don't mind me LadyT, i just het ate my dinner, maybe i'm being intoxicated by the spicy shikin chicken or by the new face of the smiling shocolate chocolate in your profile 
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LadyT (f)
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Don't mind me LadyT, i just het ate my dinner, maybe i'm being intoxicated by the spicy shikin chicken or by the new face of the smiling shocolate chocolate in your profile  Nice one LOL shikin is the best!
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mrpataki (m)
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Kitchen = kitten
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LadyT (f)
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They dont agree = Won gree
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Badman888 (m)
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i wan buy meak - i want to buy milk.
Emuuu!! - letter "m"
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