How Nigerian words made it into the Oxford English Dictionary
that its January 2020 update included 29 Nigerian English words.
The inclusion of Nigerian English words in the Oxford English Dictionary is, in a sense, a recognition of the tremendous efforts by scholars of Nigerian English many of whom have produced discipline-shaping research. This has included four published dictionaries of Nigerian English.developed by Professor Braj Kachru, the father of world Englishes research. This avers that the ‘outer-circle’ varieties of English is ‘norm-developing’.
The Oxford English Corpus is one. This is an electronic database of different types of written and spoken texts specifically designed for linguistic research. In the case of Nigerian English and other World English varieties, for instance, suggestions of new words and senses come from the corpus, reading books and magazines written in the English varieties in question as well as looking at previous studies, and the review of existing dictionaries, if any.
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