NIGERIAN ENGLISH: A VARIETY WITHOUT A STANDARD
Odekunbi, Sunday Kehinde Department of English,Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo,
Lanlate Campus, Lanlate.
Abstract
English is used as a second language in Nigeria and unarguably, it is expected to be influenced by the Nigerian indigenous languages. for Nigerians to adequately use it to express their socio-cultural and political experiences. Thus, its nativization and indigenization is inevitable. However, this is expected to be done within the ambit of the rules considered the world by identification standard. This paper, therefore, working on the data collected from grammatical 600 students of Emmanuel Alavande College of Education, Oyo, Lanlate Campus, reveals that Nigerian English is characterized by violation of grammatical rules, damaging of grammatical damaging structures and distortion of meanings. It therefore concludes s that efforts should be made by the eminent linguists in Nigeria to codify Nigerian English (NE) so as to be able to sift the Nigeria usages from the correct ones. This will accord it (NE) international recognition and Nigerian users will be saved from embarrassment in the midst of international speakers.
Keywords: Nigerian English, Variety and Standard.