#Buka nigerian restaurant address ny update

… One particularly interesting set of such loanwords and coinages has to do with Nigerian street food.

#Buka nigerian restaurant address ny update

We highlight their contributions in this month’s update of the Oxford English Dictionary, as a number of Nigerian English words make it into the dictionary for the first time. By taking ownership of English and using it as their own medium of expression, Nigerians have made, and are continuing to make, a unique and distinctive contribution to English as a global language. This is how acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes her relationship with English, the language which she uses in her writing, and which millions of her fellow Nigerians use in their daily communication.

‘Bend Skin’ in Cameroon = ‘Okada’ in Nigeria My English-speaking is rooted in a Nigerian experience and not in a British or American or Australian one. We, Africans, or those who have been colonized around the world, who have had to learn the language of the oppressor, should consider that language as part of our war trophies, because our ancestors had it pushed down their throats, and today we can speak the oppressor’s language and even understand them better than they do us, or ever wanted to, given their ‘superiority’ complex! Enjoy from the OED website. Isn’t it marvelous how each culture adds to another? Even the conqueror at some points gets conquered (just jesting) by finding himself speaking words from the conquered. Allright people, make place for Chop (eat) Okada ( Bend-Skin), Mama Put (eatery), Rub Minds(consult and work together), and Next tomorrow (the day after tomorrow), into the Queen’s English Dictionary…. Oh yes… the Oxford English Dictionary has just selected 29 new Nigerian words to be part of its new edition.