Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rlms20 Download by: [Eyo Mensah] Date: 26 July 2016, At: 14:13 Language Matters Studies in the Languages of Africa ISSN: 1022-8195 (Print) 1753-5395 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rlms20 Female nicknames in Nigeria: The case of Calabar metropolis Eyo Mensah To cite this article: Eyo Mensah (2016) Female nicknames in Nigeria: The case of Calabar metropolis, Language Matters, 47:2, 184-202, DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2016.1155638 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2016.1155638 Published online: 26 Jul 2016. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data