Open teeth vs. Gap teeth: which is grammatical?

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 Oᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ ᴠs. Gᴀᴘ ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ: ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ɪs ɢʀᴀᴍᴍᴀᴛɪᴄᴀʟ 🤓 ?


I have heard lots of people who still make this mistake and they actually think its the correct, because they hear people saying it.


Gap teeth and open teeth are both incorrect, that is, they are neologisms invented by Nigerians.


Therefore when next you  see someone with such set of teeth don’t say ‘you have open teeth/gap teeth’ instead say 

 

📌‘you have Dɪᴀsᴛᴇᴍᴀ as a noun


📌 'You are gap toothed' as an adjective.


The Yorubas commonly call this open teeth _EJI_ Igbos call it _EZE-  OkNGBAWARA._


©️ 𝕆𝕜𝕒𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕌𝕔𝕙𝕖

      𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕒𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕒𝕔𝕙

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