Last month, the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY added new words taken from Nigerian English. These words & phrases violate traditional English usage, but OED added them in recognition of Nigerians taking ownership of English.
If grammar can change, so can pronunciation.
If grammar can change, so can pronunciation.
Watch Sky News. You will see Britons pronounce the same words in different ways, based on their regional accents. Some of those pronunciations differ more from "standard" UK English than these Nigerian ones. Nobody is saying their accent isn't "proper".
You are about to say "iT's BeCaUsE tHeY aRe BrItIsH "
Well, the Americans, New Zealanders, Aussies, South Africans, and Canadians are not British, but I BET you don't think their accents are "incorrect", the way you think yours is.
Well, the Americans, New Zealanders, Aussies, South Africans, and Canadians are not British, but I BET you don't think their accents are "incorrect", the way you think yours is.
And that's the painful thing for me about that video.
This so-called "good school" has teachers that aren't good enough to grasp the point I just made: there is nothing inferior or incorrect about accents.
This so-called "good school" has teachers that aren't good enough to grasp the point I just made: there is nothing inferior or incorrect about accents.
When my first son was in kindergarten, I had to tell his teacher to cool down with some of the outlandish pronunciations she was feeding them. My heir apparent was beginning to sound like he had a fan in his mouth.
