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Innovation in Nigerian English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Edmund O. Bamiro
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Abstract

An examination of lexical innovation in the everyday English of the largest anglophone country in West Africa

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English Today , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 13 - 15
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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