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29 Nigerian Words Added To Oxford Dictionary, ‘Tokunbo, Okada, Mama Put’, Others

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The Oxford English Dictionary has added 29 Nigerian words and expressions in the recent updates to its glossary.

This was disclosed by World English editor, Danica Salazar. The editor announced this in a blog post last week, however, the news of the latest addition went viral recently.

“The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s”. She said,

Some of the words and expressions added to the updated edition of the dictionary include Buka, chop-chop, ember months, Guber, next tomorrow, and tokunbo, among others.

 

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