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The authors investigate specific Nigerianisms in Nigerian English with a view to evaluating their grammaticality and acceptability. Data were collected from the responses of 192 educated Nigerians (male and female, 125 graduates and 67 undergraduates) in two Nigerian university settings, to an “acceptability and grammaticality” questionnaire designed for the study. Findings suggested that educated Nigerian users of English would not accept certain ‘popular’grammatical constructions in Nigerian English, as many of them tend to violate specific grammatical rules of Standard English. The implications of the findings for codifying Nigerian English (NE) are considered along five significant dimensions:(a) the place of grammar (b) educated usage and standardization (c) choice of appropriate functional models for description,(d) systematic data collecting procedures, and (e) institutionalization of features