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Philippine English vocabulary. As a historical colony of the United States, the Philippine English lexicon shares most of its vocabulary from American English, but also has loanwords from native languages and Spanish, as well as some usages, coinages, and slang peculiar to the Philippines. Some Philippine English usages are borrowed from or ...
Overseas Filipino Worker ( OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. [ 3] The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million between April and September 2020. Of these, female workers comprised a larger portion, making up ...
v. t. e. 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.
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
Coupon. In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product . Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods [ 1] or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions. They are often widely distributed through mail ...
Pinoy. Pinoy ( / pɪˈnɔɪ / Tagalog: [pɪˈnɔi]) is a common informal self-reference used by Filipinos to refer to citizens of the Philippines and their culture as well as to overseas Filipinos in the Filipino diaspora. [ 1][page needed][ 2] A Pinoy who has any non-Filipino foreign ancestry is often informally called Tisoy.
The term comes from French coup d'État, literally meaning a 'stroke of state' or 'blow of state'. [23] [24] [25] In French, the word État (French:) is capitalized when it denotes a sovereign political entity. [26] Although the concept of a coup d'état has featured in politics since antiquity, the phrase is of relatively recent coinage. [27]
Boondocks. The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, [ 1] but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by city-folk. It can also occasionally refer to a mountain in both Filipino and American context.