By Sunny Awhefeada An enduring flavor of Urhobo language is the tendency to deploy idioms during communication. The language and its users have been astonishingly inventive over the centuries. Warehoused in the Urhobo language repertoire is a barn brimful with words and expressions which reflect the people’s socio-cultural and historical experiences. Innuendos, proverbs, wise cracks and a wide range of sayings which derive from indirectness number among such idioms. This storehouse of words threw up songs, stories, parables, satires, eulogies, prayers and other manifestations of the infinite possibilities inherent…
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