Nigerians are one of the most creative people on
the planet.
While non-Nigerians may doubt my assertion, till
they manage to invent a popular version of
English like we did (Pidgin English), they can
keep on doubting.
Although there are many awesome things
Nigerians do, we do have some face palm
moments. Don't laugh too hard at the five words
Nigerians use that doesn't exist in the English
dictionary:
1. Installmentally
This doesn't exist anywhere else except only in
Nigeria. If you doubt this, just
search"Installmentally" on google and watch only
Nigerian sites pop up.
2. Night-Vigil
This is another one I don't understand. Does
anyone ever hold a vigil during the day?
3. Disvirgin
How hard is it to say deflowered? It must be
extremely difficult because even health
professionals and newsmen use this absurd word
that doesn't exist.
4. Wake Keeping (Wake keep)
Nigerians have not only made the old European
custom of watching over a corpse till it's buried
(called a wake) theirs, they have actually renamed
it. Please, there is no such phrase as "wake
keep" or even "wake keeping".
5. Cunny
This is not meant as a euphemism for the female
body part. When Nigerians say this word, they
mean "cunning". How is that for a giant leap
forward?
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