Ok.

Hope your intention is not to stop us from calling Bokohariam baba go slow?

BrightEye:
Here are 7 words Nigerians use every day which don’t exist. These are the kind of words you type into your phone or computer and it draws a red line underneath it. Please read on and educate yourself.

(1.) GO- SLOW Although the word ‘go-slow’ appears in the dictionary, it is wrongly used by many Nigerians. The word go-slow means a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down. It does not mean congested traffic, so it is wrong to use it in that way.

(2.) INSTALMENTALLY There is no such word in the English dictionary, this word exists only in the Nigerian edition dictionary (if such a book exists). The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’

(3.) OPPORTUNED How many times do you say ‘I was not opportuned to come’? The correct variants that exist are ‘opporteune’ or ‘opportunity’. The word ‘opportune’ has no past tense.

(4.) CUNNY “That guy is very cunny”. This is wrong, the word is ‘cunning’, not cunny. If you want to refer to someone who is sly or deceitful, use the word ‘cunning’, ‘cunny’ simply does not exist.

(5.) WAKE-KEEPING I’m sure most people will argue with this, but argue as you may, what you will find in the dictionary is ‘wake- keep’. (

6.) SCREENTOUCH PHONE Oyinbo people made these devices and called it ‘touchscreen’, by the time the phones go enter Naija, we rename them ‘screen touch’

(7.) DISVIRGIN No, you did not dis virgin that babe, you deflowered her, you took away her virginity, but you certainly did not disvirgin her, because the word ‘disvirgin’ simply does not exist!

http://kokofeed.com/2015/02/12/7-popular-words-nigerians-use-everyday-that-are-not-in-the-dictionary/

@ op check my screen shot below, u tried but got it wrong with the word disvirging, my dictionary have it.

4.cunny is in the dictionary although mught be used wrongly by Nigerians.It means cu*nt or vulva.

E ku ile oooooooooooooo

We shouldn't fight the use of these Nigerian coinages. We should encourage people to use them. Who said we can't evolve our own variant of English, when Australians and Americans and white English-speaking South Africans have their own peculiar English words?

Which dictionary you dey use?

Segadem:
yeah! no 8 VULCANIZER

Honestly1:
Which rat would u kill first? Please be sincere........ You have just come back from work to see 6 rats • The 1st rat was eating your highest academic certificate maybe a degree Certificate. • The 2nd rat was eating your ATM card. • The 3rd rat was eating your Marriage Certificate. • The 4th rat was eating your land and house ownership documents. • The 5th rat was eating your Visa to travel for a multi-Billion dollar project. • The 6th rat was eating your Bible. Which one would you kill first?

are u breeding rats in ur house?

BrightEye:
Here are 7 words Nigerians use every day which don’t exist. These are the kind of words you type into your phone or computer and it draws a red line underneath it. Please read on and educate yourself.

(1.) GO- SLOW Although the word ‘go-slow’ appears in the dictionary, it is wrongly used by many Nigerians. The word go-slow means a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down. It does not mean congested traffic, so it is wrong to use it in that way.

(2.) INSTALMENTALLY There is no such word in the English dictionary, this word exists only in the Nigerian edition dictionary (if such a book exists). The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’

(3.) OPPORTUNED How many times do you say ‘I was not opportuned to come’? The correct variants that exist are ‘opporteune’ or ‘opportunity’. The word ‘opportune’ has no past tense.

(4.) CUNNY “That guy is very cunny”. This is wrong, the word is ‘cunning’, not cunny. If you want to refer to someone who is sly or deceitful, use the word ‘cunning’, ‘cunny’ simply does not exist.

(5.) WAKE-KEEPING I’m sure most people will argue with this, but argue as you may, what you will find in the dictionary is ‘wake- keep’. (

6.) SCREENTOUCH PHONE Oyinbo people made these devices and called it ‘touchscreen’, by the time the phones go enter Naija, we rename them ‘screen touch’

(7.) DISVIRGIN No, you did not dis virgin that babe, you deflowered her, you took away her virginity, but you certainly did not disvirgin her, because the word ‘disvirgin’ simply does not exist!

http://kokofeed.com/2015/02/12/7-popular-words-nigerians-use-everyday-that-are-not-in-the-dictionary/

(8.). WISENESS

pls help me find the meaning of this word - Gerrarahia mehn!

thunder74:
Retainsership

Thank u very much.
I was typing an application for "retainership" for my company, after typing , it keep showing error.

Then I realized the word never exist in dictionary.

moscobabs:
impossibility: This word doesn't exist in my own dictionary cos everything is possible for those that rely on God.

wetin b ur problem, na only bad thing dey dey impossible? What of good things?

You mean oríire is also impossible?

Gwazah:

@ op check my screen shot below, u tried but got it wrong with the word disvirging, my dictionary have it.

Did you notice that in your screen shot, the example of the use of the word (disvirgin) was taken from a book written by a Nigerian (Gideon Mekwunye)?

The word was apparently coined in Nigeria, but seems to be gaining some popularity even outside Nigeria, which is a good thing.

na wah oh! who teach you use of English no try at all. there are morphemes dat are added at the beginning nd end of a word dey are called prefixes nd suffixes e.g virgin is in the dictionary cos it stands on its own "dis" adds another meaning to d word. Not every word with ed,ing,es etc..dat are In the dictionary because they are tenses. I don't know if you got the explanation buh in a nutshell, d words are correct.

tjfulloption:
I was OPPORTUNED to be a 30 minutes boss over our driver when We were driving home from the bank where our boss sent us on errand to deposit some Moines in his bank account. Go- slow slow I said to him as I spot this beautiful lady walking by. I'm on my way to a friend's WAKE-KEEPING of her late dad she replied when asked where she was going. As a fast guy I brought out my blackberry porch SCREENTOUCH PHONE I bought on INSTALMENTALLY term from a friend to collect her mobile number. SHARP-SHARP we drop her at the venue as I told her I will give her a call. Bros! You are very CUNNY O, you are claiming to be the car over abi? I go tell Oga. the driver JOKENLY tells me. This babe ASWEAR na me go DISVIRGIN HER.

You nailed it!

babamadiba:
No 10, PARASTATER as in federal government parastater.

Parastatals!

biafranbaby:
Write "cunny" in google and see meaning.

D meaning no b here

The dictionary is not fixed that new words can't be added or new meanings given to old ones. Besides different meanings can be given to a word by simply adding a prefix or suffix.

If Nigerians choose to "disvirgin" their ladies and the Europeans choose to "deflower" theirs, what's the big deal as long as they understand what they are talking about.

For a language dat was foisted on us despite our numerous languages I tnk we are trying....noted tho

Segadem:
no 9 CONVOCATE

. It exists

Honestly1:
Which rat would u kill first? Please be sincere........ You have just come back from work to see 6 rats • The 1st rat was eating your highest academic certificate maybe a degree Certificate. • The 2nd rat was eating your ATM card. • The 3rd rat was eating your Marriage Certificate. • The 4th rat was eating your land and house ownership documents. • The 5th rat was eating your Visa to travel for a multi-Billion dollar project. • The 6th rat was eating your Bible. Which one would you kill first?

I reject it in Jesus name. Think no evil, see no evil.

No 4 is spelt "cunning".

Honestly1:
Which rat would u kill first? Please be sincere........ You have just come back from work to see 6 rats • The 1st rat was eating your highest academic certificate maybe a degree Certificate. • The 2nd rat was eating your ATM card. • The 3rd rat was eating your Marriage Certificate. • The 4th rat was eating your land and house ownership documents. • The 5th rat was eating your Visa to travel for a multi-Billion dollar project. • The 6th rat was eating your Bible. Which one would you kill first?

I BOUND ALL SUCH OF RAT IN JESUS NAME

Segadem:
yeah! no 8 VULCANIZER

Forknizer

PoliticalThuG:
Ok u try, NExT!!

Some use the word HATRACY, but there is no word like that. You can only get HATE ot HATRED. Nxt ....

choi and used number seven last nyt wen i was trynna woo a girl ooo.
no wonder she was jus lookin at me wan kin

BrightEye:
Here are 7 words Nigerians use every day which don’t exist. These are the kind of words you type into your phone or computer and it draws a red line underneath it. Please read on and educate yourself.

(1.) GO- SLOW Although the word ‘go-slow’ appears in the dictionary, it is wrongly used by many Nigerians. The word go-slow means a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down. It does not mean congested traffic, so it is wrong to use it in that way.

(2.) INSTALMENTALLY There is no such word in the English dictionary, this word exists only in the Nigerian edition dictionary (if such a book exists). The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’

(3.) OPPORTUNED How many times do you say ‘I was not opportuned to come’? The correct variants that exist are ‘opporteune’ or ‘opportunity’. The word ‘opportune’ has no past tense.

(4.) CUNNY “That guy is very cunny”. This is wrong, the word is ‘cunning’, not cunny. If you want to refer to someone who is sly or deceitful, use the word ‘cunning’, ‘cunny’ simply does not exist.

(5.) WAKE-KEEPING I’m sure most people will argue with this, but argue as you may, what you will find in the dictionary is ‘wake- keep’. (

6.) SCREENTOUCH PHONE Oyinbo people made these devices and called it ‘touchscreen’, by the time the phones go enter Naija, we rename them ‘screen touch’

(7.) DISVIRGIN No, you did not dis virgin that babe, you deflowered her, you took away her virginity, but you certainly did not disvirgin her, because the word ‘disvirgin’ simply does not exist!

http://kokofeed.com/2015/02/12/7-popular-words-nigerians-use-everyday-that-are-not-in-the-dictionary/

Nice post.. but no5 is actually correct.. it is called wake keeping or simply Wake..
Kindly do justice to your post so that a lot of us aren't led astray..
Nice post once again

Segadem:
yeah! no 8 VULCANIZER

which dictionary are u using?

op you can paste your account no let pay u 100mill for correcting us

There's no Nigerian English as yet.The regional English we speak tagged NIGERIAN ENGLISH is A very poor standard of other regional standards like British English, American English, Canadian English Australian English, New Zealand English, and to some extent, South African English.
They are regional standards because, one, they have been codified, two, standardized, and three,there's international intelligibility.That is, the codes or words are internationally understood.E.g.'Toast' means the same same thing in all these regional variations.But,'toast'means another thing in NIGERIAN ENGLISH , which sets the other users of the English language thinking.
NIGERIAN ENGLISH is not codified nor standardized.Therefore, it is not a standard yet.

BrightEye:
Here are 7 words Nigerians use every day which don’t exist. These are the kind of words you type into your phone or computer and it draws a red line underneath it. Please read on and educate yourself.

(1.) GO- SLOW Although the word ‘go-slow’ appears in the dictionary, it is wrongly used by many Nigerians. The word go-slow means a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down. It does not mean congested traffic, so it is wrong to use it in that way.

(2.) INSTALMENTALLY There is no such word in the English dictionary, this word exists only in the Nigerian edition dictionary (if such a book exists). The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’

(3.) OPPORTUNED How many times do you say ‘I was not opportuned to come’? The correct variants that exist are ‘opporteune’ or ‘opportunity’. The word ‘opportune’ has no past tense.

(4.) CUNNY “That guy is very cunny”. This is wrong, the word is ‘cunning’, not cunny. If you want to refer to someone who is sly or deceitful, use the word ‘cunning’, ‘cunny’ simply does not exist.

(5.) WAKE-KEEPING I’m sure most people will argue with this, but argue as you may, what you will find in the dictionary is ‘wake- keep’. (

6.) SCREENTOUCH PHONE Oyinbo people made these devices and called it ‘touchscreen’, by the time the phones go enter Naija, we rename them ‘screen touch’

(7.) DISVIRGIN No, you did not dis virgin that babe, you deflowered her, you took away her virginity, but you certainly did not disvirgin her, because the word ‘disvirgin’ simply does not exist!

http://kokofeed.com/2015/02/12/7-popular-words-nigerians-use-everyday-that-are-not-in-the-dictionary/

You won't find wake-keep in the dictionary. There is no such word. You will find wake

NobleAngell:
ROTFL. Can't stop laughing. Clap her koh slap her ni.

my dear we don argue tire, dem say i be old school, i tell dem say yeso i gree, make i be old school dan speak dat blunder "clap her"