English is a dynamic language with new words added regularly in the dictionaries as they are formed by the white race. If ours are not yet added, we should find means of getting them add them or we write our own dictionary so the world too can learn from us.
The way those words came to be in Nigeria/Africa is same way those dictionary words came to be in the west. Difference is that theirs were added but ours were not.
The world had kept defining us but it's time we also make our input and make our presence be felt.

na dis same english dey cause confusion for our constitution

All those burials dey do and dey do one called christian wake-keep were did they get d word frm den

Bros , go-slow na go-slow! Before the cars the speed? Abeg English is dynamic they say. English has killed our languages so we shall kill it!.

lets invent nigerian dictionary
simply

Well, English is not my father's language but it's always good to interact with foreigners.

1. Go-Slow: Is not english but pidgin english. Spot the difference.

2. Wake: a watch kept beside the body of someone who has died... wake-keep

Plumpy and alright are in the dictionary. Don't do oversabi.

jst put am join gbam at least nah human dey write am b4

No be human being form the english??

DucatiKNG:


http://ynaija.com/disvirgin-cross-carpeting-go-slow-7-more-words-you-wont-find-in-the-dictionary/

we have the right to invent our own words. Most of the so called English words are derivations from other languages. So park one side

if nigeria was a world power...everybody in the world will suddenly love pidgin-english...beleave me...

they will even love Yoruba...

na money everybody listen to anyway..

veekid:
if dem no dey for dictionary, den we put am ourself, na by force we follow oyinbo pple dem as ah dey comment now sef na inside go slow ah dey

Not by force to copy oyibo correct English but by force to copy their dirty dress sense and habits abi?

Superstar007:


LOL.. There is no word like Geniousity, rather you can make use of "Ingenuity"

In another news- Oprah Winfrey’s Word Added To The Dictionary.
U can add geniousity to your Dico too

DaGC:


I never said Nigerians are above corrections. I meant that as Nigerians, a few words should be alluded to Nigerians and their language. Nigerians can use them without seeming out of place. The British and Americans both speak english but have words not in each other's dictionaries.

Bootylicious is one word that baffles me in new dictionaries. Weird thing is that for centuries, the word 'booty' wasn't related to someone's buttocks.

i read somewhere the word bootylicious was first coined by snoop in 92 dre track f--k wit dre day. it meant being feeble or weak. beyonce later changed the meaning to being endwowed with...you know that already.

ok na. i shld call them nigeria english.

[quote author=Drajah post=30844557]English get as e be o...and I dey use some dey form phonetics...chai

SuperModerator:
Let me add a few;

mannerless: Say she lacks manners cos there is no word like mannerless

Convocate - convoke: Do not say convocate, say convoke. No such word as convocate

Gist (verb) - Chitchat: Gist can not take verb form so no words like gisted and gisting

Cattle rearer - herder
There is no such word as cattle rearer or rearer. herder is the right word
Eg: Ugochukwu's father is a cattle rearer(wrong)
Ugochukwu's father is a herder(right)

Bros, thanks but you just get 2/4. Rearer and convocate can be found in some dictionaries.

khassy:
I normally don't post but this caught my attention
Just saw the following words in my dictionary
Plumpy
Cunny
Convocate
Am using a phone dictionary though
Is it still wrong?

OP has spoken and that is final.

charlesm91:
i read somewhere the word bootylicious was first coined by snoop in 92 dre track f--k wit dre day. it meant being feeble or weak. beyonce later changed the meaning to being endwowed with...you know that already.

DPG

ray2Dmond:
the wahala of oyinbo people too much self...

^^^You know i actually thought wahala was in the dictionary! Thought it was a synonym of palaver!

It's a good thing at least we have our own kind of English or words

If the British and Americans can have there's
What's stopping us from having ours?

All languages keep evolving, and as we proceed, some words get accepted as proper/'legit' (especially factoring in the UK vs US discrepancies angle).

All right vs Alright for example, are both correct, and actually do mean slightly different things.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/all-right-versus-alright?page=1

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all%20right

Nice 'heads up' though . . . we're all guilty of a few of the 'ten'.

JayTeeA:
now dat I'm opportuned to comment on first page material ur now telling me the word is not an English word

moswags:
13) pepperish- this word is used by nigerians o refer to something. usually food that has a lot of pepper. however that word is wrong. the rigth word tovuse is peppery.

pepperish sounds better...

vickerz:
WHAT ABOUT P.D.P , GEJ, OTUEKE , AGBAJE., THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN D DICTIONARY OF FOOLS

But that does not mean they are still not fools...i get ur gist

PDP : APC is to be blamed

APC : Nigerians are wiser now.

DucatiKNG:


http://ynaija.com/disvirgin-cross-carpeting-go-slow-7-more-words-you-wont-find-in-the-dictionary/

If prescriptivists feel it necessary to remain enslaved by language, it's a free world. What I absolutely despise, however, is the smug, elististic audaciousness of prescriptivists who think it's their role to dictate how language must be used. There are concepts that are unique to Nigerians, and therefore, more mellisonant when expressed using the idiosyncratic peculiarities of Nigerian English.

Anybody who feels compelled to subject themselves to the contrived/non-existent rules of London RP English should know that they are just slaves to the language. One is truly liberated when, rather than confine their imaginations to service the sadistic gratification of prescriptivists, they reinvent language for the good of their wild imaginations.

Ah beg, carry go with your plumpy neologisms my Naija people, and free yaself from English enslavement, even if you choose to do it instalmentally! Viva la descriptivists! Viva Nigerian English!

DucatiKNG:


http://ynaija.com/disvirgin-cross-carpeting-go-slow-7-more-words-you-wont-find-in-the-dictionary/

You try...but Point of correction "Severally" is incorrect u say "Several Times"

DucatiKNG:


http://ynaija.com/disvirgin-cross-carpeting-go-slow-7-more-words-you-wont-find-in-the-dictionary/

please conduct your research well before concluding. Quit tagging Nigerians.

We Africans seem to not have enough confidence to Africanise our English.

USA, Australia, Canada, all now have their own version of English.

@OP, severally also is not in the dictionary.