once I had a book on Naija slangs, well, language changes, what was used 20 years ago is no longer actual, and some people reading to book today told me every much of in is no longer in use, so, if you live abroad for many years and you go back to Nigeria now. you might see all what u have learned useless.

Where are you going to in Nigeria this winter?

Lagos?

'ebe ano' – the place to be

'wetin' – what?

'Wetin dey happen' – what's going on?

'Danfo' – public transport bus

'Molue' – bigger public transpport bus

'of winches na?' – whats happening?

'show' – come here

'I don tire' – I'm tired

Hope you are good?

Ah, JJC…….. what can i say. You can't go to a naija bording school and not know what jjc means.

I don't think there's a difference between ramen and indomie noodles. Na the same thing to me. I can't remember if indomie are thicker noodles cos i've always hated the thing and never really ate it back in nigeria. But in boarding school, my friends loved it cos u could make it with cold water. Anyway, long story short, it's essentially the same thing.

If u come across any word or phrase u don't understand on my blog, i will be happy to explain it. Although, u did a pretty good job with these ones.

Mills and boons..for some reason those romance novels were sent probably by ship to nigeria and it was our female playboy….without the pictures..

um…dang, y cant i think of anythin else??

when i do, i'll def come back!

I've been thinking of doing a post on naija slangs for non-native speakers/readers in blogville. Don't know when I'd do it but someone might beat me to it, of course. Mills and Boon is another one that's been in my head for a while.

Don't understand the thing with indomie noodles either. But my son who's raised in the UK loves them too. Maybe it's a genetic thing! Lol.

See I've been to nigeria and I still have difficulty with yoruba. Reason is because my parents are Ondo, they speak Ondo to each other, Dad always spoke English to us kids while my mom always talked to us in Ondo, so much so she talks to my son in Ondo and I have to remind her he is Nigerian in name only lol. But we never respond to mom in Ondo, always English. And like you, as long as we don't go too deep into the yoruba language, I can usually decipher the gist of what's going on. I understand Ondo much better than I undertsand yoruba and sometimes mistake Ondo words for yoruba. It's so complicated.

About the JJC, I laughed so hard when you commented about that. I thought everyone knew what that was. lol

I don't know what I don't know! I need you guys to tell me what I'm missing out on!

@naturesgentletouch – thanks o! I'm happy to say I know all of those. That would be cute to get your expat friends to be adding oh/o to everything.