Chimarto:
Short Niker

ngoben:
Wetin u mean self OP...nigerians r creative...we r innovative....oxford dict fit c am borrow am put inside dictionary

OlaSpeaker:

i still stand by my argument, the consistent use of these words will make it to be added to the dictionary or as well we create our own America have theirs so why can't we the consistent use of the word like "gonna, wanna" made it to be added to the dictionary though slang but does it matter? what we fail to understand is that no matter how we study the Queen's language we can't be as good as they will imagine a man from England wanting to be an authority in Igbo language. the earlier we develop and embrace our own linguistic the better
if i were the president i will make pidgin English our lingual franca

ollah2:


You don't know what you are saying bro. Stand in front of your employer and speak the wanna gonna. You should proceed by writing Nigerian version in official reports .

OlaSpeaker:

Not just me we are already using the Nigeria English in formal writings and speeches just as the OP admitted even the PRESS use these words and to add we use them daily in our offices, correspondence even in the classrooms let just face it and free ourselves from this oyinbo 21century slavery

adedemmy:
Nigerians are one of the most creative people on the planet. While non-Nigerians may doubt my assertion,till they manage to invent a popular version of English like we did (Pidgin English), they can keep on doubting.
Although there are many awesome things Nigerians do, we do have some face palm moments. Don't laugh too hard at the five words Nigerians use that doesn't exist in the English dictionary:

1. Installmentally
This doesn't exist anywhere else except only in
Nigeria. If you doubt this, just search
"Installmentally" on google and watch only Nigerian sites pop up.


2. Night-Vigil
This is another one I don't understand. Does anyone ever hold a vigil during the day?


3. Disvirgin
How hard is it to say deflowered? It must be
extremely difficult because even health professionals and newsmen use this absurd word that doesn't exist.


4. Wake Keeping (Wake keep)
Nigerians have not only made the old European
custom of watching over a corpse till it's buried
(called a wake) theirs, they have actually renamed it. Please, there is no such phrase as "wake keep" or even "wake keeping".



5. Cunny
This is not meant as a euphemism for the female body part. When Nigerians say this word, they mean "cunning". How is that for a giant leap forward?


Source: http://betterpikins..com/2016/09/5-words-nigerians-use-that-actually.html

ollah2:


Dude quit hailing mediocrity. There's a reason why somethings are labelled standard. This is Nigeria and we follow UK style of writing and speaking. Your office accept it doesn't mean it's nationally accepted. People write exams. Do you expect them to your these wrong things? If your child writes this way and fails woefully, would you question the exam body for failing him? After all, he took after his father. C'mon

abuayman:
If just a single Japanese invented the word; WORKSHOP. What's bad if a whole country like Nigeria and it's citizens invented those words??

OP, go sleep

Lemme tell yhu something, my name is abuayman, and I was the one who DisVirgin my Wife.

SHIKENAN

OlaSpeaker:

UK standard yes but it has falling a long time ago we are just deceiving ourselves by holding onto to a failed standard Nigeria has come of age and we should develop ourselves mediocrity is not at play here it just accepting who you are the same way America embrace mediocrity and today are better of the UK whether we accept it now or later Nigeria English as develop and will continue to develop you can check the latest edition of the Oxford dictionary then you will understand what am saying because even you use Nigeria English either in spelling words tenses or sentence structure

ngoben:
Wetin u mean self OP...nigerians r creative...we r innovative....oxford dict fit c am borrow am put inside dictionary

fidel3431:
no 7 change

ngoben:
Wetin u mean self OP...nigerians r creative...we r innovative....oxford dict fit c am borrow am put inside dictionary

francotunsco:
OP, you may need to remove night vigil from your list. From my understanding of the word 'vigil', it actually mean being at alert, keeping unhindered watch over something or an event. Therefore, could keep vigil in the morning or at night. For example, i can hire a armed fellow to keep vigil on my egungun (masquerade) while it is on its outing which would happen in the morning or afternoon. My instruction would be '' Mr Lalasticlala, you are hereby hired to keep vigil on Bamgbose egungun to ensure that it is not abducted while on outing'' Feel free to quote me.

ollah2:


Did you just say America? You made mention of a first world country that everything works. Before stuffs like that can work in Nigeria, many things gotta work. So the Africa isn't a first world country but they do things their way and it's exported and accepted cos things work in their country. No basic amenities in play in Nigeria. Corruption is the other of the day.

Chd12:


I think this word help clear the air about your understanding of "vigil"
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vigil
etymology

Related to vigor, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin.

noun (plural vigils)
- A watch kept during normal SLEEPING HOURS, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person.
- A period of observation or surveillance.
- The eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
synonyms
- (watch, especially at night) lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch

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Text generated by the application English Dictionary https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=livio.pack.lang.en_US

ollah2:


Did you just say America? You made mention of a first world country that everything works. Before stuffs like that can work in Nigeria, many things gotta work. So the Africa isn't a first world country but they do things their way and it's exported and accepted cos things work in their country. No basic amenities in play in Nigeria. Corruption is the other of the day.