I'm a British English speaker, but I'm not very familiar with Nigerian English; my knowledge being confined to authors like Chinua Achebe. I'll have to look around first and then come back to you.
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#1 18-Jul-2003, 11:38
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We were ask to mention and discuss five inevitable differences between the English spoken in Nigeria and Englad.And i want you to give the differences under the following points
1 syntax
2lexis
3semantics
4phonetics.
Ten copies.
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#2 18-Jul-2003, 13:04
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#3 21-Jul-2003, 06:54Re: English
These look interesting. (I might even take a closer look at them myself.) There are a surprising number of websites where they discuss both Nigerian and British English. Go to: http://ms101.mysearch.com/jsp/GGmain...h+AND+Nigerian
(What do you think, TDOL?)
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#4 22-Jul-2003, 01:42A very useful site- just what the person seems to be looking for. Good googling there.
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#5 22-Jul-2003, 15:46Thanks. I learned how to do that at the who2.com website. They have a tutorial on web searches there. (Their quizzes are fun. Go to: www.who2.com ).
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A very useful site- just what the person seems to be looking for. Good googling there.
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#6 22-Jul-2003, 21:22I hadn't seen that site before.
