Diezani’s seized assets: $40m jewelleries, jewelry or jewellery?

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was again in the news last week. Unfortunately, it was for another negative reason. The court affirmed the seizure of her $40m-worth jewellery, with no tears shed for her in most known places. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission gave the figure, although some observers do not believe that a human being who will die one day would spend that much on such a collection. But I doubt if Diezani has contested the estimation.

This prompted me to bring to our class today the often-confusing grammar of ‘jewellery’. Although it is a word that refers to a number of decorative objects, it does not normally take an ‘s’. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, ‘jewellery’ refers to decorative objects worn on your clothes or body that are usually made from valuable metals, such as gold and silver, and precious stones.

Note, however, that there is one jewel, two jewels and more jewels because although ‘jewellery’ is uncountable, ‘jewel’ is:All the men attended the event with their jewels. Spell it right

You no get dictionary?

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Thank you for the information

Wetin concern magu with English, just after d dollars kawai!

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Are you asking us

Jewel

There is nothing like jewelleries, it's incorrect. Jewelry is American English while Jewellery is British English.

What kind of crap question is that.

Jewelry

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