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Sen Yung was born in San Francisco, California to Gum Yung Sen and his first wife, both immigrants from China. [3] When his mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919, his father placed Victor and his younger sister, Rosemary, in a children's shelter, and returned to his homeland to seek another wife.
[28] [29] Today, the term is still occasionally used to mean nobleman, but has mostly been adapted to other uses. In Filipino martial arts, it is equivalent to the black belt rank. [30] Beauty contests in the Philippines have taken to referring to the winner as lakambini, the female equivalent of lakan.
Swardspeak is a kind of Taglish/Englog LGBT slang used by the LGBT demographic of the Philippines. It is a form of slang that uses words and terms primarily from Philippine English, Tagalog/Filipino, and/or Cebuano and Hiligaynon, and occasionally as well as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Sanskrit, or other languages. Names of celebrities ...
See Quo warranto § Philippines. R.A. N/A: English Abbreviation for Republic Act. raffle Original meaning: a type of lottery: English The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts. As of 1974, "[n]o case may be assigned to any branch without being raffled." [17] As of 2013, raffles can be conducted electronically via ...
List of initialisms, acronyms ("a word made from parts of the full name's words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the Philippines.
Some loanwords have been associated to new meanings, such as kursonada (corazonada, originally meaning '"hunch"), which means "object of desire"; sospetsoso (sospechoso) is the "suspicious person" and not the "suspect" as in the original; insekto ("insecto"), which still means "insect" but also refers to a "pesty clownish person"; or even sige ...
Earlier: Young Thug’s lawyer explained that the meaning of “P” in Young Thug & Gunna’s hit track “Pushin P” is “Pushing Positivity.” “It means, any circumstance you’re in, if ...
The types of sovereign state leaders in the Philippines have varied throughout the country's history, from heads of ancient chiefdoms, kingdoms and sultanates in the pre-colonial period, to the leaders of Spanish, American, and Japanese colonial governments, until the directly elected president of the modern sovereign state of the Philippines.