When you use "anniversary"...

TELAWAA: Tuesday, June 14, 2016

 The word "anniversary" talks about an annual celebration; hence, it is a blunder to say: "Tenth year anniversary" "Second year wedding anniversary" "Fifteenth year church anniversary" Isn't that not what you often say? Every time you say "anniversary", you don't need to add the word "year". When you do, you are guilty of tautology. Just say: "Tenth anniversary" "Second wedding anniversary" "Fifteenth church anniversary"
 I feel you now know better, right?

See this!

TELAWAA: Friday, June 3, 2016

One of my jolly good fellows requested that I should explain the difference between "despite" and "inspite" (Just the way he put it).

To him, that is very difficult to figure out.

Hear me out, please: There is no such single word as "inspite"; what we have is "in spite".

People often write "inspite", but that doesn't exist in English, please.
What we have is "in spite", which can be substituted for "despite".

NB: Can you note that "in spite" is not one word. It is two words.

Please note this, and mind your grammar, will you?

"en route"

TELAWAA: Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Have you noticed the way most people use "en route"?


CAUTION: It is when you want to refer to where you are going to that you use "en route". It cannot be used to refer to where you are coming from.

e.g. I am en route Kaduna. (That means I am heading to Kaduna.)

NB: You cannot say " en route" when you mean you are coming from Kaduna.

Is that clear?