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Some people don't even know what u talkn about.

youngest85:
Op u need to go back to school, those words are correct!

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10. Pepperish


It is common to hear Nigerians describe a meal that has too much pepper in it as pepperish. The proper word should be ‘peppery’. No native English speaker uses the word pepperish” to describe the burning sensation we feel from eating pepper.

9. Packer


Nigerians probably got the word from pack. The right word is dustpan. Since dustpan packs dirt, Nigerians like to call it packer.

8. Next tomorrow


Most Nigerians generally use “next tomorrow” but there is not such word as next tomorrow. Instead you should say, “a day after tomorrow”.

ITbomb:
Just because Oyibo don't have it in their lexicon doesn't mean it does not exist.

It exists in our lexicon and we are using it

Oh.?

So, It also means we have our own dictionary...

7. Cunny



This is a word which Nigerians use to describe someone that is being deceitful or crafty. The right word is cunning not cunny.

6. Opportuned


What exists in English dictionaries is ‘opportune,’ without ‘d’ at the end. Opportune means ‘timely’ or ‘well-time, especially convenient or appropriate for a particular action or event. Opportuned is only common in Nigerian English.

5. Installmentally


Don’t be tempted to use the word ‘installmentally’. Though it sounds correct, it isn’t. There is no such word in the English dictionary as it only exists only in the Nigerian edition of English language. The correct thing to say is ‘in installments’.

4. Flashing


Every Nigerian knows “flashing” to mean when someone calls your mobile phone and cuts off before you answer. The word ‘flash’ is so common among Nigerians and its used at least once daily by many. Flash has different meanings but none has anything to do with a phone call. The word doesn’t exist in that sense in English.

3. Trafigate


Nigerians use the word to describe a situation where a driver indicates to other drivers that he/she wants to take a turn. It is used so often, that it has started to sound like proper English.

2. Disvirgin


This word is used on a daily basis by many Nigerians when they intend to say a woman has lost her virginity. There is no word like disvirgin. The correct word to use is deflower. Disvirgin simply does not exist.

Many people speak English as their first language. It is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world.
Some of the words and phrase we Nigerians use often cannot be found in the dictionary. Some are words you picked up from others and they have become quite a norm.

It is not only the uneducated folks that are guilty of using these wrong words as the very educated Nigerians also use the English language inappropriately.

Below are words Nigerians use that doesn’t exist in the English dictionary.


1. Go-slow


When Nigerians say go-slow, they mean congested traffic, which is wrong. The meaning of go-slow in the English dictionary is, a form of industrial action in which work or progress is deliberately delayed or slowed down.


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In a recent interview with Ebro Darden on Hot 97 radio in New York, Davido revealed why he was kicked out from school, why he ran away from home and more.

Read excerpts from the interview below.


On how he was kicked out of school for poor grades


“First I went to Tennessee, then I went to Alabama, I didn’t get kicked out for being bad, I got kicked out because of my grades. I was focused on music. So I transferred to HBCU in Alabama, and that was where I found my music life. I learned everything.

There was a music school there, and everybody was just about music. Actually, it was a Christian school, it was just Gospel Music. There was this dude called J. Mo, he came to me to mix his first record.

I remember he had a space on his record. I did the demo for him to record it himself, and then he just released it with my voice on it. So it was like ‘featuring Davido’. That was the first time I saw something like ‘featuring Davido’. So I was like, it sounds kinda good. This was 2010 when I went home. I saw Don Jazzy, Tiwa (Savage) was out. I was just looking at all these like ‘These dudes are making money”.

I went there for Christmas and it was lit. It was crazy. I was hanging out with D’banj at the time, he had that Kanye deal. I now told my Dad that I was trying to stay, and he was like ‘What? My friend you better go back to school”. I called my roommate, and told him “Imma do this no more. If my Dad calls, tell him you don’t know where I’m at.’”


On why he ran away from home


“When I left, my family was looking for me for like 6 months. They sent letter to D’banj house, they sent letter to Psquare house, they sent letters to everybody’s house. My Dad was calling school, and they were telling him; ‘He wasn’t even here for the past semester, he left..” It was like the whole Nigeria knew who I was before I even dropped a single.


Kamal that is my manager now, used to be Don Jazzy’s assistant. My Dad started calling him and said “if I see you guys with my son, all of you are getting arrested.” The first record I put out first was ‘Back When’. I was in London at the time, I dropped this record, I went home, and they were like ‘Yo, come on, it’s time. D’banj, Wande Coal and everybody was telling me that your record was good. I was 16, so I was the youngest at the time. I went back home fresh from America. I go into the club that night, and they were playing my song, I went crazy.”



His style of music


“I don’t even call my music Afrobeat, I call mine Afrofusion. To me it’s just too different. I can’t tell you it’s Afrobeat, because it’s not. “You know the originator of the Afrobeats is Fela. Fela has a sound which I can say has heavy baseline, the Rhodes, brass instrument, [and] the percussion is different. If you ask me ‘Gobe’ is Caplyso, Afro mixed with Calypso. But I feel like the Afrobeats is catchy and has caught wave since time. Because I know some Afrobeats songs that I don’t want to call Afrobeats. I call them Afro-Pop or I call Afro Trap. Everything is just still African music.”


http://gistreel.com/2016/07/29/kicked-school-davido-reveals/



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11. Barack Obama


President Barack Obama will make brains as a Yoruba man. He was probably one of the demons breaking hearts at a younger age.



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10. Future

Because Edo guys are petty as hell, say hello to our Edo brother, Future.

9. Ciara


Ciara is most definitely one of those fine as hell Hausa babes that everyone can’t get enough of. Always slaying!

8. Michelle Obama

Michelle is one of our Tiv sisters from Benue state. Roger that?

7. Serena Williams


All that power at tennis is useful for something else, and it’s not from us you’ll hear it. She’s Efik

6. Jay Z


Jay-Z has to be Igbo too. Those lips are the same ones he uses to tell the girls that he will spoil them silly.

5. Drake


Drake obviously looks like one of those fine boy mallams that grew up abroad and came back to Nigeria. Still a Fulani boy

4 Nicki Minaj


Nicki Minaj is one of those Urhobo babes that change their names when they hit the jackpot or make it big.

3. Kim Kardashian West


Kim Kardashian West is definitely Yoruba. That ass is a living evidence and you need no other evidence.

2. Beyonce


Queen Beyonce is Ijaw, probably from Bayelsa state. She’ll post a word text on Instagram about the government and oil and all that.

Have you ever imagined what your favorite foreign celebrities would have been called if they were Nigerians?




Mind if we Help?


1. Kanye West


With all that creativity in him and multiple sources of income, we’ll say Kanye is Igbo. He’s obviously looking for more investors to load his containers and bring more goods. From the way he treats his bae sef, you’ll know.

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odiagabros:
Op check ur sim... Cos am enjoying mine presently

the name of ur font??

Lwkm

who iz deez Op ohh
ahhDyeee!

Zoharariel:
I usually do not insult people but when I do, I do it in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit.

If T.B Joshua is not a mentally deranged charlatan; you claim to see vision in Ukraine & prophesy doom about Malaysia but you couldn't see the disaster at your backyard?

The Lagos State government should be held responsible for conniving, promoting & shielding of an international fraudster vis-a-vis sweeping that case under the carpet - even after he was summoned by the tribunal.

Show some respect.
U don't insult someone using *HIS* name.

TakeNote.

DrRasheed:
The kind of pastors politicians used to spread havoc in the name of religion.
Most xtians are forced to hate Muslims not because they found reason to do so. Islam means peace.....ask xtians in yola what peace is in case u foolishly quote me.

ISIS

5. Coza Pastor and Ese Walter


The Common Wealth Of Zion Assembly (COZA) was seen in bad light, and still is after a blogger, Ese Walter boldly came out to reveal her affair with Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA (Common Wealth Of Zion Assembly) Abuja chapter.


According to her, her friend recommended the church but asked her not to join any workforce but to remain just a member. She went on to reveal sordid details about the affair. The sex scandal rocked the church and its members for a long time in 2014.


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