{"id":7904,"date":"2016-09-15T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:52:07","slug":"15-filipino-words-added-to-oxford-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/15-filipino-words-added-to-oxford-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Filipino words added to Oxford Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It\u2019s time for the whole world to know what <em>lechon, tabo<\/em>, and<em> lola<\/em> means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7905\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Oxford-English-Dictionary.jpg\" alt=\"oxford-english-dictionary\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>FILIPINO WORDS IN OXFORD. 15 new Filipino words are now included in the Oxford Dictionary. (Image\u00a0grabbed from hype.my)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In the newly-released and updated Oxford English Dictionary (OED), 14 Filipino words have made it and are now part of the Oxford Dictionary with more than 1,000 revised and updated entries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Filipino words such as <em>lechon<\/em> (roasted pig),<em> lechon asado<\/em>, <em>balut<\/em> (fertilized duck egg),<em> leche flan<\/em> (custard dessert), <em>pancit<\/em> (noodles),<em> kare-kare<\/em> (peanut-based stew), and <em>puto<\/em> (steamed rice cake) are now included in the said list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Other words included are Filipino words for family members such as <em>lolo<\/em> (grandfather), <em>lola<\/em> (grandmother), <em>tito<\/em> (uncle), and <em>tita<\/em> (aunt). Another set of Filipino words included are <em>yaya<\/em> (housemaid), <em>tabo<\/em> (dipper), <em>arnis<\/em> (martial arts), and <em>bayanihan<\/em> (sense of community).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The next update for Oxford Dictionary is set in December 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/144863\/balut-lechon-13-other-filipino-words-join-oxford-dictionary\" target=\"_blank\">Inquirer.net<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mb.com.ph\/lechon-kare-kare-even-yaya-make-it-to-oxford-dictionary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for the whole world to know what &#8216;lechon&#8217;, &#8216;tabo&#8217;, and &#8216;lola&#8217; means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Oxford-English-Dictionary-e1473936664269.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}