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These defenders of the Ghanaian Standard have made considerable progress in “pidginizations.” Other scholars see the resistance to cultural modificationsĪs futile and insist that a “Ghanaian Standard” be recognized as equally as

Written English in Ghana and who denounce all linguistic deviations from BSE as Ideas of ‘correct’ English in Ghana and so have been denounced by most GhanaianĮducators, who enforce the British standard as the only appropriate form for Those common forms of English have always threatened to alter Innumerable hybrids in between those two poles. Ranging along a continuum from Pidgin English to British Standard English, with Ghana (like other ‘anglophone’ West African nations) has taken various forms,

Problematic Pidginizations: Who Can Accept Ghanaian English?īe prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use” – Chinuaįrom its entrance during the colonial period, English in