{"id":59245,"date":"2025-01-09T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59245"},"modified":"2025-01-09T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:56:34","slug":"oxford-english-dictionary-adds-20-nigerian-slang-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/09\/oxford-english-dictionary-adds-20-nigerian-slang-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford English Dictionary Adds 20 Nigerian Slang Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), has officially added 20 Nigerian slang terms and expressions in its latest update, marking a milestone for Nigerian English.<\/p>\n

Notable additions include “Japa,” “agbero,” “eba,” “419,” and “Yahoo Boy,” all widely used in Pidgin and Nigerian culture.<\/p>\n

Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant for the OED, announced the update on LinkedIn, calling it a recognition of Nigeria’s linguistic creativity.<\/p>\n

“It’s a pleasure to see the OED highlight our rich culture and distinct expressions,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

He also contributed to compiling the words and recording their pronunciations for the dictionary\u2019s online platform.<\/p>\n

The newly added words span various aspects of Nigerian life, from food and fashion to socio-political terms and everyday slang.<\/p>\n

Other included terms are “abi,” “adire,” “area boy,” “cross-carpeting,” “gele,” “jand,” “janded,” “Kanuri,” “Kobo,” “Naija,” “suya,” and “Yarn Dust.”<\/p>\n

This inclusion underscores Nigeria\u2019s growing influence on global language and culture, reinforcing its impact on the evolving English lexicon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Alexis Uchendu The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), has officially added 20 Nigerian slang terms and expressions in its latest update, marking a milestone for Nigerian English. Notable additions include “Japa,” “agbero,” “eba,” “419,” and “Yahoo Boy,” all widely used in Pidgin and Nigerian culture. Kingsley Ugwuanyi, a Nigerian English consultant for the OED, announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59247,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59245\/revisions\/59247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}