Last month, a group of educators, scholars and other prominent individuals filed a petition in the Supreme Court questioning the policies of the government which mandate the use of English as medium ...

Columnist's note: Of the many words in Philippine English that made it to the Oxford English Dictionary, nothing has probably received as much attention, locally and globally, as "gigil" in the ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. This March, gigil was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as the newest Filipino word in the Philippine English ...

“Lumpia” and “Gigil” are now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), leading a group of 11 Filipino words added in its March 2025 update. The latest OED update includes nearly 600 new words ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino words like "gigil" and "kababayan" have been included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). In the dictionary's first quarter update for 2025, OED ...

WHEN you see something cute — a baby, an object or an animal, for example, and you feel the urge to squeeze whatever it is, there is now an English word for it. And that word happens to originate from ...