This wont work in naija but you an keep trying

scholes0:
Depends of Country... British, Australian, Canadian, or American Etc. Teacher no teach me Lobbish.
I know Americans use that first pronunciation of divorce which you are telling us is wrong.

As for Often .... BOTH pronunciations with the silent T and the Audible T are correct.
Same with DATA... can be pronounced as both both DAHTAH and DAYTAH.... Americans pronounce it as DAAYDA (The roll the T as fast D) ... Australians say DAH-TAH

Question is which English does Nigeria speak officially? It's British English so forget about the American pronunciation and focus on the British pronunciations. In that light, the OP is correct and not teaching "lobbish".

ibitzbarlow:


Question is which English does Nigeria speak officially? It's British English so forget about the American pronunciation and focus on the British pronunciations. In that light, the OP is correct and not teaching "lobbish".

The world is a Global village now, and the most popular forms of Global English carries the day.
Bought a computer a few months ago, and the System's own Auto Correct system was telling me that the spelling of Labour and Colour were incorrect... Yeah right
Obviously, Britain is not doing enough to protect its own legacies.

Turks:
TO OUR IGBO SISTERS; IT'S NOT KOKUMBA




IT'S 'QUEUE-CUM-BAR'

Onyejemechimere:
When you write a post and see this.

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AreaFada2:
Oral English is poorly taught in 9ja.
Very surprising when you arrive in UK for the first time. At least we said we copied UK system. Hard to compare with American English.

Even Balewa & Ahmadu Bello who were Grade II teachers had better spoken England than most 9ja trained professors of today.

OlujobaSamuel:
hmmmmmmmm, na so i called microsoft care and hp care centre in 9ja oo, na serious gobe dat day, the guy no dey hear me, me sef dey struggle hear am, na so d 2 of dem tell me make i call back and select english as my preferred lang, i was like, na yoruba u dey hear, d thing vex me die, why dey no fit give us nigerian to dey give us our own english

Laff want kill me for the highlighted. As in "the language u were speaking wasn't English" shey? Abi u speak pigin?

I'm guilty of that "data" pronunciation. Noted! Thanks Op

7Alexander:

I be Igbo, though I don't make those mistakes, but I can totally relate. CHEST-SHAYST. lol

ibitzbarlow:


Question is which English does Nigeria speak officially? It's British English so forget about the American pronunciation and focus on the British pronunciations. In that light, the OP is correct and not teaching "lobbish".

Who British English don help? Why can't we have our own

seunfape:
I concur with all except no 5

And that is the easiest really!

OP, what Fu_ck?
Is it ferk or fork?

And av u checked d vegetable in d dico That's how she will be doin upandan since secondary school, so u avnt changed

Kowor:
Thank you. Very guilty of the vegetable.

Onyejemechimere:
There are words we use in almost our day to day activities, words we pronounce wrongly everyday, without Knowing we are.

Using the word “Sachet” as an example, we pronounced it “Sah-chet” While the correct oral pronunciations should be “Sa-shay.”

Here are a few correct pronunciations to guide us:

1. Vegetable

2. Divorce

3. Vehicle

4. Often

5. Sachet

6. Résumé

7. Chaos

8. Data


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Op, while trying to correct folks, you made some blunders. It's incorrect to say 'more smarter'. You either say smarter or more smart.
But, some of your pronunciations are also wrong. Please do a thorough job before posting.
Thanks!

My pronunciation is right except Divorce although I pronounce it's as De-vorce sometimes and Dye-vorve sometimes but the British use Dye-vorve and Americans use De-vorce. So I'll say I'm correct both ways

scholes0:


The world is a Global village now, and the most popular forms of Global English carries the day.
Bought a computer a few months ago, and the System's own Auto Correct system was telling me that the spelling of Labour and Colour were incorrect... Yeah right
Obviously, Britain is not doing enough to protect its own legacies.

That is not correct completely. In informal settings, any of the variants is acceptable if there is proper communication and understanding. However, for official purposes, as a Nigerian you must stick with British English. I bet you cant spell "Labour" as "labor" in a "Use of English" examination and expect to be svored correct.
The computer you talked about has provision in its language setting for you to choose the variant of English you want. Most laptops are from the US or from China by US companies and so they come with the default American English setting. It's your choice to use it that way or change the Language to British or any other English variant.

emmalexabl:
Am so proud of my English teacher....

Op.. ,i have been pronouncing all those words correctly since my secondary school days..

did u just say secondary school? ya mates started while in kindergarten

Afonjas:


Who British English don help? Why can't we have our own

You can help by creating one or regularise our "pidgin".

nextprince:


Laff want kill me for the highlighted. As in "the language u were speaking wasn't English" shey? Abi u speak pigin?

i dey tell u, na serious gobe dat day, my system was having license issue and i bought it brand new from hp licensed outlet, the thing come dey give me tori in lass than a year, na so i call them, me wey dey form before, na dat day i get my boss, d 2 of dem come dey give me same response as if sey na planned work

ESTATE : EH-STATE(Wrong), ______ Ee-state (right).

AlphaPegasi:
igbo boys are the worst offenders. those niggas cant pronounce nothing to save their life. lolzz. igbo boy say CHASTE instead of CHEST

Hahahahahaha

Nice ones.

I couldn't read through all the replies, hope someone has pointed out to the OP to refrain from using double comparative.

Say...smarter... NOT ...more smarter...

We keep learning everyday...

haywire07:
Who AXE u all dis things?

Falz you are on nairaland too? How's Simi?

Nice one. Gracias Amigo.

Eberex:


did u just say secondary school? ya mates started while in kindergarten

Why kindergarten..,am sure some of them like u., even started in-utero

"Drought" is also pronounced as "Drat" not drought"

Hope it didn't took you guys anyting 2 find this....more biko

Good one. Noted

Spoken English in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. Lots of kids are taught wrong pronunciations and also, the society does not encourage oral English.

I could recall during my PPA as a corper, my computer classes were superior both pronunciation and practical and the students wanted me to teach them conversational English as well, but I refused in order to save someone's job.

A student said he could see bed fly. I was confused and said bed does not fly.

I had to correct his pronunciation on bird.

Ademasta comman see pronunciations

nextprince:

I meant Spoken Japan, Russia and Germany.

I guess you have never seen a smart phone with predictive texting before.

Water, come, Thursday, fuel, practical, month, etc are all pronounced wrongly.