Umu ala beke ge gbu Kwa nmadu, went grocery shopping with my daughter Azania the other day whilst at the till we realized we forgot to buy salad cream we had to walk back to get one, after searching for some time we couldn’t find it so I stopped one of the staff to ask her where we could find salad cream, in my typical niaja accent I was like;
Me: where can I find salad cream, please?
Staff: what?
Me: salad cream
Staff: what?
Me: salad cream; this went on for like some time, and my daughter was like, mum, let me handle this
Azania: we are looking for Saled cream
Staff: ooh over there, okay, I’ll take you there.
Hmmmmm, Saleeeed kwa? Chie Primmy, sorry, I thought the salad was spelt SALAD and pronounced SALAD until that day at Tesco.
So I asked my mini-me what she said to the lady that I did not say, and she was like, I told her we were looking for salad cream, unlike you. I pronounced it the right way, while you pronounced it the typical Naija way ha ha ha ha ha ha, mummy, you always say Nigerians pronounce the way they spell, and you just proved it ha ha ha ha ha.
Oooh, well, I give up, English is not my language, biko, but our prayer is for our kids to be better and more significant than us; I rest my case.
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