It's not often that a broadcast interview by a diplomat wows listeners, but a recent conversation involving the American ambassador to Nigeria, James F. Entwistle, is causing a buzz – and winning ...

“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

The headline on the article, published on the BBC’s website, reads like this: “Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window.” The piece, written in a form of West African Pidgin English, tells the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Pidgin, spoken in Hawaii for decades ...

Portuguese influence contributes to why these Nigerian cities speak dope pidgin. Also called, ‘broken’, it is an English-based Creole that has been adopted as a pseudo-lingua franca or nationally ...

Words like Troway are an amalgam of "Throw" and Away", but how did we come about "Dormot"? The obvious explanation would be that when confronted with the overwhelming presence of English-speaking ...

Editor’s note: Starting today, West Hawaii Today will feature a biweekly column called “pidgin’ on da loose” by Wally “Kimo” Camp that will educate and entertain readers about Hawaii’s famous pidgin’ ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help them understand Christian scripture: the first Bible translated into Nigerian ...