Salazar said the inclusion of the Philippine terms “benefits both the dictionary and the Philippine variety of English itself.” The Philippine terms were among 500 new words, 900 newly revised and updated words, and 2,400 new senses (or definitions) of existing words. “The Inquirer is actually a good source of illustrative quotations for the OED, meaning that your newspaper is actually in the dictionary,” Salazar said.Īs examples, she cited the newspaper’s use of the terms “baro’t saya,” “batchmate,” “estafa” and “gimmick” in its news stories. The research also included referencing “studies of Philippine English by Filipino and foreign linguists, and also from my own observations as a native speaker of the variety,” Salazar said.įilipino publications, such as the Philippine Daily Inquirer, were also used as a source for word suggestions. The terms were selected through the Oxford University Press’ resources “to track the emergence of new words and senses,” including the Oxford English Corpus.
Such recognition may also lead to the realization among Filipinos that the liberties we take with English are not aberrations, but rather linguistic innovations that reflect our own cultural experience and contribute to the richness of English,” Salazar said. “Becoming part of the OED is a recognition of the role that Philippine English plays in the evolution of the language. Salazar said OED’s recognition of Philippine terms may also uplift the lot of the Filipino variety ofĮnglish as it gives legitimacy to usage previously frowned upon, such as “carnap” and “salvage.” The words “Pinoy” and “adobo” were added in 2006. Philippine English has long been present in the OED, with the word “abaca” included in the dictionary’s first edition in 1928. “The inclusion of Philippine English words … is an acknowledgment that this particular variety is as worthy of serious linguistic scholarship as older, more established varieties, such as British and American English,” she said. The country has also become a prime hub for English-language call centers. The addition of Philippine terms in the lexicon lends itself to the “legitimization of Philippine English as a variety in its own right,” said Salazar.Īlong with Filipino, English is an official language in the Philippines, used in the academe, business, government and daily life.
We apply stringent quality checks to all dictionaries produced or acquired by our expert team so our users can feel confident in our ability to accurately and meaningfully represent their language.Halo,” “barangay” and “suki,” hybrid expressions like “balikbayan,” “sari-sari store” and “kikay kit,” and derivations like “presidentiable.”Īlso included were compound words like “batchmate,” so-called blends of clipped words like “mani-pedi” or “manicure-pedicure,” initialisms like KKB or “kaniya-kaniyang bayad,” Filipinized translations like “go down” to mean “get off a vehicle,” conversions of nouns into adjectives, such as “high blood” to mean “angry, agitated,” and “complete changes” of word denotations, such as “gimmick” to mean a night out with friends and “salvage,” which means “to kill” instead of “to save” in the Philippines. Our dictionaries aim to describe the way languages are and have been used by people around the world, rather than attempting to prescribe the way a language should be used.
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