Nigerian standards

There’s an interesting piece by Michael Obinna in the Nigerian Vanguard in which he complains of “errors of usage in Standard English [being] seen as Nigerian Standard English”, by which he means something distinct from Nigerian pidgins. Although Ethnologue has come across Australian standard English, it doesn’t seem to have heard of Nigerian standard English,…

Charles Jenkins’ war

With no disrespect intended, and given that it is easier to organise wars and other historical events in the mind when they are grouped in series, the Charles Jenkins incident is probably all that will be generally remembered of the Korean War, and Charles Jenkins has outstanding lugs, would it not be pragmatic to begin…

Charles Jenkins’ dog

I haven’t seen anything in the Japanese press, but this Straits Times story is a giggle anyway. According to the ST, Japanese pundits were expecting to concentrate on one thing when Mr Jenkins stepped off his flight in Jakarta: If Mr Jenkins brought the dog, it meant he intended to stay for some time in…