Taiwo Olayemi Soneye is a Professor of English Language at the Obafemi Awolowo University. She teaches and researches the phonologies of varieties of English, Pidgin, Translation, Corpus and Applied Linguistics. She is a public orator, one of the Annotators of Nigeria's one million word International Corpus of English and the founding president of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria. She may be reached at: taison@oauife.edu.ng