Yemisi Aribisala in Medium:
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I caught myself correcting my children for the umpteenth time; “There is no such word as ‘Pepperish!’”
Then I got smart, turned and corrected myself: There “is” such a word as “Pepperish”. It rhymes with “Feverish” and works efficiently in describing the “temperament” of the food and its effect on the senses. If it is not in the Oxford Dictionary, it ought to be because the word works better than“Hot”
The context is Nigerian and our food is ideally always pepperish...[continue reading]
