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Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.
Manila (/ m ə ˈ n ɪ l ə / mə-NIL-ə; Filipino: Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines, after Quezon City. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a highly urbanized city.
When Ferdinand Marcos' economic policy of using foreign loans to fund government projects during his second term resulted in the 1969 balance of payments crisis, [37] [38] [39] students from Quezon City-based universities, notably the University of the Philippines Diliman and Ateneo de Manila University were among the first to call for change ...
Taglish [57] — A bilingual English-Tagalog code-switching phenomenon mainly encountered in Metro Manila. Talahib [16] — The Saccharum spontaneum. Talisay [1] — The Indian almond or Tropical almond. Tapa [57] — sliced dried meat; Teleserye [14] [5] — television drama series; Tita [5] [3] — aunt; also used as a form of address for an ...
Manila Cathedral, a Roman Catholic church in Manila, Philippines; Manila Luzon, a drag performer best known for being a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race; Manila Esposito (born 2006), Italian artistic gymnast; Manila (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse; Manila hemp refers to the natural fibre from the abacá plant that is used in making ...
People's Journal is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper [1] published by the Philippine Journalists Incorporated.Augusto "Gus" Villanueva, [2] [3] its former editor-in-chief, and Antonio Friginal [3] were founders of the company.
Larry Silva – 21st Vice Mayor of Manila, former Manila City councilor from the 3rd district, actor and comedian; Carmen Planas – known as "Manila's Darling", was the first woman to be elected to any public offices in the Philippines when she was elected councilor of Manila by general suffrage in 1934. She would later serve as the capital ...
Spanish Manila served as the center for missionaries for the whole of Asia and Oceania. [5] City of the Sun (Spanish: Ciudad del Sol), coined by the Spanish poet Salvador Rueda during his visit to Manila in 1915. [6] Havana of the Orient, in reference to the city's large tobacco export industry in the early 1900s. [7]