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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

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".

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




IT'S 'QUEUE-CUM-BAR'

Onyejemechimere:
When you write a post and see this.

(Like if you noticed anything in the sreenshot below)

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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

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".

seunfape:
I concur with all except no 5

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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

haywire07:
Who AXE u all dis things?

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

nextprince: