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Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Hardeysolution(op): 4:24pm On Nov 06, 2016

Even Hausas, igbos, say dodo. ..what is the English word for Dodo ..... Or?

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Abiagirl777(f): 5:04pm On Nov 06, 2016

If its plantain you mean then you are wrong cos Igbo's call it une or Abrika.
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Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Hardeysolution(op): 5:20pm On Nov 06, 2016

Abiagirl777:
If its plantain you mean then you are wrong cos Igbo's call it une or Abrika.
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I mean they adopt that word. I have lot of them as friends.. I don't mean that's the right word in igbo

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Nobody: 5:22pm On Nov 06, 2016

Plantain

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Abiagirl777(f): 9:22pm On Nov 06, 2016

Hardeysolution:
I mean they adopt that word. I have lot of them as friends.. I don't mean that's the right word in igbo

Maybe in Lagos and other westrn states but not in the east,I heard it on Nl for the first time.
Travel out,the world doesn't end in Lagos,Ogun n Abuja.

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Baroba(m): 6:13am On Nov 07, 2016

In Igboland its called Ogede, Plantain is supposed to be the English name isn't it?

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Baroba(m): 6:14am On Nov 07, 2016

Abiagirl777:
Maybe in Lagos and other westrn states but not in the east,I heard it on Nl for the first time.
Travel out,the world doesn't end in Lagos,Ogun n Abuja.

Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by Hardeysolution(op): 8:41am On Nov 07, 2016

Baroba:
Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

isn't ogede Yoruba?

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by babyfaceafrica: 8:30pm On Nov 07, 2016

Baroba:
Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

lolz...eve the ogede is yoruba for banana

Re: Please, What's The Original English Word For 'dodo'? by marylandcakes: 9:13am On Nov 10, 2016

In Benin it is called Edodo

In English it is called fried plantain

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