AS a writer, words are my stock-in-trade. I have written in English as well as in the vernacular. But ever since I encountered words like dalumat, matarling, kariktan, matimyas and all those ...

Heart Evangelista shared her six favorite Tagalog words during her Harper's Bazaar Singapore cover shoot. On Instagram, the women's fashion magazine posted a video where the Kapuso star and global ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has just included 40 Philippine English terms and expressions in its June 2015 update, the largest single batch of terms from Tagalog and Filipino usage of English ...

K-Pop star Jessica Ho, better known by her stage name Jessi, has just proven how much she loves the Philippines. On Friday night, December 9, 2022, the South Korean-American rapper hyped up Filipino ...

Gigil is a Tagalog word that was recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most comprehensive dictionaries in the English-speaking world. PHOTO/S: Canva Isa na namang Filipino word ...

Buwan ng Wika always reminds me of an undergraduate research paper I wrote on the origins of “bad words” in Filipino. Like the name of God, these words were not taken in vain, they were reserved for ...

My grandson (who is in his 20s) complained about how uninteresting my columns had become since I began to list down Tagalog words he couldn’t recognize. They came from your baul, he said, they’re ...

Like it or not, Tagalog forms the basis of our national language Filipino. To make things more complicated, Tagalog, like most other languages of the world, has been in flux, and attempts to keep the ...