I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.