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Philippine English also borrows words from Philippine languages, especially native plant and animal names (e.g. ampalaya and balimbing), and cultural concepts with no exact English equivalents such as kilig and bayanihan. Some borrowings from Philippine languages have entered mainstream English, such as abaca and ylang-ylang.
Name Image Region Type Description Adobo: Nationwide Meat/Seafood/Vegetable dish Typically pork or chicken, or a combination of both, is slowly cooked in vinegar, cooking oil, crushed garlic, bay leaf, black peppercorns, and soy sauce, and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterward to get the desirable crisped edges.
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining ...
Ripley's Believe It Or Not: Philippine Edition: Ultimate Guinness World Records Pinoy Edition: That's My Job: July 5, 2008 August 2, 2008 Philippines Scariest Challenge [d] August 22, 2008 September 3, 2009 OMG [d] November 24, 2008 2009 Kuwentong Talentado [d] September 7, 2009 March 15, 2010 spin-off of Talentadong Pinoy
The compound word batya't palo–palo, a phrase in the laundry business where many Spanish words proliferate. The words were taken from the Spanish batea for "washing tub" and palo for "stick", something a typical Filipino might think had no Spanish provenance at all because of the Tagalog verb palò which means "strike".
This is a list of notable restaurant chains in the Philippines. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the United States) or franchising agreements. Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a standard ...
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
It's Showtime is a Philippine television variety show broadcast originally broadcast by ABS-CBN and later Kapamilya Channel.Originally hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta, Teddy Corpuz, and Vice Ganda, it premiered on October 24, 2009 on ABS-CBN's Unli PrimeTanghali line up replacing Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba?.