7 Coronavirus Grammar Lessons By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care (and who have been sending me inquiries in private messages), here are seven coronavirus grammar lessons:

1. People test positive FOR coronavirus, not “TO” it. It is, “El-Rufai tests positive FOR coronavirus,” not “El-Rufai tests positive TO coronavirus.”

2. Quarantine is pronounced KWO-RAN-TEEN, not KWO-RAN-TAIN, in both British and American English. In other words, quarantine rhymes with "canteen," not "valentine."

3. Coronavirus is a single word, although “corona virus” is an acceptable variant.

4. People tend to use (“self-)quarantine” and “(self-)isolation” interchangeably, but they’re different. You (self-)quarantine yourself when you suspect that you may have the disease because you have come in contact with people who have tested positive for it. You go into (self-)isolation when you test positive for the disease.

If you stay home NOT because you came in contact with people who have the disease and NOT because you tested positive for it, but because your government insists you do, or you do so on your own volition just to eliminate or decrease your chances of getting the disease, it’s called “shelter in place.”

5. An epidemic is a disease that temporarily affects a large number of people in a locality while a pandemic is a disease that has spread throughout a country, a continent or the entire world. Coronavirus is obviously a pandemic.

6. You don't "contact" a disease; you "contract" it. So people can only "contract" coronavirus, not "contact" it.

7. Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19, not COVIK 1, 9.�Don’t be misled by what a certain physically quarantined and mentally isolated “president,” now infamously known as “President COVIK” on social media, said a few days ago.�

Nor should you call COVID-19 “Code 19,” as Nigeria’s notoriously pliant rubber-stamp Senate President by the name of Ahmed Lawan did two days ago. Well, this same man told the world of a woman who “killed her husband to death”! Go figure.

Source: https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2020/03/7-corovavirus-grammar-lessons.html?m=1

Farouq Kperogi, Mass Communication Professor, writes from the US

Good one. Atleast people will learn and not infect us with something worse





This Coronavirus get as e be oooo.. Sey the thing dey whyne us ni.

After lock down people go carry Belle like say. As guys just DEy quarantine with different babes

I was having a chat With a friend the other day, the guy was just shouting I don quarantine, I don quarantine.

When I asked him with what, he said soap and water

Dude only borrowed the words without knowing the meaning.

Another one was telling me he is on self isolation when he has family of 4..

Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19 not COVIK-1.9

Lies, go and watch the Delta woman video

The new name is Ivarus gorilla

People are researching for its cure and you're researching for grammar associated with it.
Leaving content and chasing shadow, typical African.

J111333:
People are researching for its cure and you're researching for grammar associated with it.
Leaving content and chasing shadow, typical African.

I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care

You could have Waka passed truly

OnlineTv2347:
I know grammar is the last thing on most people’s minds right now, but for the few people who care (and who have been sending me inquiries in private messages), here're 7 coronavirus grammar lessons:

1. People test positive FOR coronavirus, not “TO” it. It is, “El-Rufai tests positive FOR coronavirus,” not “El-Rufai tests positive TO coronavirus.”

2. Quarantine is pronounced KWO-RAN-TEEN, not KWO-RAN-TAIN, in both British and American English. In other words, quarantine rhymes with "canteen," not "valentine."

3. Coronavirus is a single word, although “corona virus” is an acceptable variant.

4. People tend to use (“self-)quarantine” and “(self-)isolation” interchangeably, but they’re different. You (self-)quarantine yourself when you suspect that you may have the disease because you have come in contact with people who have tested positive for it. You go into (self-)isolation when you test positive for the disease.

If you stay home NOT because you came in contact with people who have the disease and NOT because you tested positive for it, but because your government insists you do, or you do so on your own volition just to eliminate or decrease your chances of getting the disease, it’s called “shelter in place.”

5. An epidemic is a disease that temporarily affects a large number of people in a locality while a pandemic is a disease that has spread throughout a country, a continent or the entire world. Coronavirus is obviously a pandemic.

6. You don't "contact" a disease; you "contract" it. So people can only "contract" coronavirus, not "contact" it.

7. Finally, the other name for coronavirus is COVID-19 not COVIK-1.9

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Highly sophisticated mo_______rannnnnns and Coneheaded structures take note

Lol . Corona doesn't care about "Grammar"

Na you sabi, maybe Coro understand grammar

Covik 1-9 Biros

No be grammar dey worry mankind now!

Speaking too much grammer... what a coronal travesty!

But, i still don't understand what the deal is about this covid19 bullshit though...
How can a chinese flu with very low mortality rate ground almost all sectors of a civilized world?

Imagine this quote for America alone: "The CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 22,000 deaths, 36 million flu illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations. The 2019-2020 influenza outbreak is moderate to low in ..." Yet, not even a single county has been locked down in America due to flu (which is a yearly thing by the way)! But corona shows up and everywhere scattered

What's tha business?

Coronavirus isn't an epidemic. It's a pandemic. Take note.

May the Lord Almighty God heal the World in Jesus name

Na ur grammar go heal them Na. Mtcheeee.

Is there anything this zealot would write without insulting Bubu? Farooq suffers from Buhariphobiasis

You've been making sense until you got to number seven...

Your explanation in number 7 shows who you truly are....

Lmao! Nothing bubu no go see for Cuba

The mods on this forum are infected with coronavirus.
HOW WILL THIS FUCKING SHIT HELP US REDUCE INFLATED PRICES OF ESSENTIALS

Mr Teacher, how this one take solve the problem wey dey ground?�
Anyway, thanks for the lecture ��

Street's definition...

With money at home you are in #isolation
No money, you're in #quarantine.
No money and troublesome/nagging wife, my Brother you in #totalshutdown... �




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#stayhome #staysafe

Well done. What about the use of "contain" and "curtail" the spread of the virus??

Thanks for broaden our knowledge, but the last point is somehow embarrassing.

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Highly sophisticated mo_______rannnnnns and Coneheaded structures take note

Dabullit. watch yourself. Hotoromental. Gmbuharii.

Aboki99:
Is there anything this zealot would write without insulting Bubu? Farooq suffers from Buhariphobiasis

Aboki park well