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Soft and Melodious”- Let Linguists World Wide Concur with Great Queen Victoria

Journal: Anthropology and Ethnology Open Access Journal (AEOAJ) (Vol.4, No. 1)

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Abstract

This is yet another appeal to linguists worldwide to rectify a longstanding blunder [1-3]. About a century and a half ago, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther met The Empress of India in her palace. He recited The Lord's Prayer to her in Yoruba. At the completion of the recital Queen Victoria said the Yoruba language sounded “soft and melodious

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