{"id":1075,"date":"2023-10-09T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:50:24","slug":"nigerian-pidgin-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/nigerian-pidgin-english","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Pidgin English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nigerian Pidgin English in both Audio and text versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nigerian Pidgin English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">How Bodi. How You Dey?\nI dey fine.\nWhy you dey give me wahala?\nYour story get k-leg!\nAbeg! No waste my time!\nMake you no vex me!\nThat man be wayo.\nGod don butta my bread!\nI go land you slap! Listen well well!<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modern English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Hey, buddy. How are you doing today?\nI'm fine.\nWhy are you giving me trouble?\nYour story sounds suspect!\nPlease! Don\u2019t waste my time!\nDon\u2019t upset me!\nThat man is a fraud!\nGod has answered my prayers!\nI will slap you! Pay attention!<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><!-- Start of Audio Clip --><br><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/mp3s\/pidgin.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigerian pidgin English (21 sec) (from <a href=\"https:\/\/matadornetwork.com\/read\/beginners-guide-to-nigerian-pidgin-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matador Network<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Pidgin English in both Audio and text versions. Nigerian Pidgin English How Bodi. How You Dey? I dey fine. Why you dey give me wahala? Your story get k-leg! Abeg! No waste my time!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1.webp",480,270,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Barker","author_link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/author\/richard-barker"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"English Language History","slug":"history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"The history of the English Language.","parent":0,"count":35,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":35,"category_description":"The history of the English Language.","cat_name":"English Language History","category_nicename":"history","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"English Language History"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}