Not every word in use has been added to the dictionary and it takes a lot of scrutinies to add a word. ‘Nollywood’ and ‘Kannywood’ which are the names for the movie industries in Nigerian happens to have passed the Oxford dictionary scrutiny.
A long list containing at least 29 words used in Nigeria was recently revealed by the Oxford dictionary. Though Nollywood has always been in the Oxford dictionary, Kannywood was among the 29 new words.
This means that dictionary editors have been tracking these words for a while. Also, when a word is added to the Oxford Dictionary, it must have been used very frequently around the world. The rest of the words added alongside ‘Kannywood‘ include:
- Agric
- Barbing salon
- Buka
- Bukateria
- Chop
- Chop-chop
- Danfo
- Eat money – eat
- Ember months
- Flag-off
- Flag off
- Gist
- Gist
- Guber
- Kannywood
- K-leg
- Mama put
- Next tomorrow
- Non-indigene
- Okada
- Put to bed – put
- Qualitative
- Rub minds
- Sef
- Send-forth
- Severally
- Tokunbo
- Zone
- Zoning
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