MANILA, Philippines — Only in the Philippines do we eat dirty ice cream, cook in dirty kitchens, get kilig over romantic movies we watch with our barkada and pay KKB when we dine-in the carinderia ...

This March, gigil was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as the newest Filipino word in the Philippine English category. But aside from gigil, 10 more Filipino words made it to the list. They are ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) featured the Tagalog word “bakya” as its Word of the Day on Tuesday, marking its important contribution to Philippine English. The OED on its ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added new words from various languages, acknowledging their common usage in English. These additions include terms from South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, the ...

A Filipina is part of the team currently working on the Oxford English Dictionary and is pushing to include Filipino-coined words like 'presidentiable' and 'senatoriable' in the venerable dictionary A ...

THE Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - one of the largest and longest-running language research projects in the world - is committed to make space for words from the Philippines. Words like "gimmick ...

WHEN you see something cute — a baby, an object or an animal, for example, and you feel the urge to squeeze whatever it is, there is now an English word for it. And that word happens to originate from ...

As far as the world English editor for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is concerned, Philippine English is a legitimate variety of the English language. During a webinar organized by the ...

In time for the election season in the Philippines, the word ‘trapo’ is also listed in the OED BAGUIO, Philippines – As the election season starts in the country, what better way to welcome it than ...

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New words from around the world have been added to the Oxford Dictionary as they have become so commonplace in the English language. These terms are 'untranslatable', meaning they do not have an ...