Danfo, okada, buka, other Nigerian words added to Oxford English Dictionary

Danfo, okada, buka, other Nigerian words added to Oxford English Dictionary

- New Nigerian words have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary

- Some of the words are danfo, okada, next tomorrow, severally, buka, among many others

- A statement from Oxford said some of the words have been popular since the second half of the 20th century

Nigerian-English language has received great attention as Oxford English Dictionary said it has added 29 Nigerian words to its words database in its January updates.

In a statement by its editor, Danica Salazar, most of the new words are from Nigerian usages, coinages, and those that have been used since the twentieth century.

“The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s,” a part of the statement read.

Danfo is a popular yellow bus in Lagos that most residents use as their public means of transportation.
Danfo is a popular yellow bus in Lagos that most residents use as their public means of transportation.
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Some of these words are Kannywood, okada, buka, severally, bukateria, next tomorrow, mama put, danfo, barbing salon, gist, tokunbo, send-forth.

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In another related development, Urban Dictionary, an internet-based open-ended word database, has also added the word "Mad Oh" to its dictionary.

"Mad Oh" is a Nigerian twitter lingua that gained popularity from its use on the micro-messaging app as a funny response to things that surprise or as just a mundane rejoinder.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that a 17-year-old teenager, Carson Huey-You, was believed to be the youngest person to ever get a master’s degree from Texas Christian University (TCU).

It should be noted that he got his undergraduate degree at the young age of 14 before bagging a masters in physics.

Another wondrous thing about Carson is that he has a younger brother who is following in his genius footsteps.

The 17-year-old said he is just a normal kid who likes playing video games with his brother and petting his dog outside of the school.

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“Outside of just school and academia, I’m really just a normal 17-year-old kid. I like playing video games, I have a dog, I have my brother at home, so, we have fun,” he said.

His brother, Cannan, aged 14 is already an electrical engineering major at the same institution. The brother said that he always gets people asking him how old he really is.

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Their mother, Claretta Kimp, said she knew that her children were nerds, adding that she discovered Carson had a very great future when he was still small.

One of their teachers, a physics and astronomy professor, Magnus Rittby, said they were very smart, adding that being their mentor is something he really cherishes.

“They were shorter, but they were almost equally smart as they are now, so I had to kind of equally assess if they were ready to go to college. There is no limit. Not even the sky,” he said.

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Though Cannan said he wants to be an astronaut, his older brother said he is trying to figure things out.

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