Alternatively, it is called being flashed on account of the brief flashing of the screen. The receiver of the call, hearing the phone ring once and seeing the number, understands themselves to have been beeped. A person finding themselves with inadequate prepaid time to make a call will ring up the intended recipient of the call and hang up immediately. One may hear remarks such as 'That lady is rich, don't you see how she is putting on' and 'The police are looking for a man putting on a red shirt.' The verb to put on is often substituted for to dress, to be dressed, or to wear.

Ī building labelled hotel, in a small town, is likely to be a restaurant.

A basement is called a godown, but the usual meaning of warehouse is also known in Uganda as proper English. Sometimes the usage has a traceable origin. Another example, 'pop', is used to replace words like bring and come for example: Danny, pop that bottle here or Heno, pop to my house. The best known example is probably to extend, which in Uganda means move over on a seat to make room for someone else. The origin of these usages may be obscure. Some Ugandan English words have a peculiar meaning widely understood within Uganda but mystifying to foreigners. The combination of the above three rules will transform calcium into /karuʃim/. Additionally, /s/ in Runyankole and Rukiga is more often heard as /ʃ/. The initial /r/ is dysphonic to the Luganda speaker but is perfectly natural to the speaker of Runyankole and Rukiga, which have few instances of the /l/ sound. Luganda does not permit the sequence /kju/ any occurrence of this sound becomes /tʃu/. Thus the word railway gets its /r/ and its /l/ substituted, giving /leyirwe/. The /l/ sound, conversely, cannot follow these sounds. Luganda never has an /r/ starting a word it only appears following the letters /e/ and /i/ within a word. Similarly, muscular is pronounced /ˈmusicular/. Thus the letters l and d in Alfred / ˈ æ l f r ɛ d/ will be given sound by the addition of / u/, making the pronunciation of the word /ˈalufuredi/. Indeed, the Luganda word for consonant is 'silent letter'. The Bantu languages spoken in southern Uganda tend not to have consonants sounded alone without a vowel in the syllable. Uganda has a large variety of indigenous languages, and someone familiar with Uganda can readily identify the native language of a person speaking English. The speech patterns of Ugandan languages strongly influence spoken English. 2.12 Terms for transport and giving directions.2.11 Words for social events and greetings.

Nigerian proverbs in pidgin english