The Oxford English Dictionary has added 11 new Filipino words for its March 2025 update.
In an Inquirer.net article, the Oxford English Dictionary explained: “Often, when we talk about untranslatable words, what we are actually talking about are words that have been lexicalized in one language but not in others, which is what makes them particularly intriguing…For people who speak English alongside other languages, there is an easy way to fill such lexical gap – simply borrowing the untranslatable word from another language.”
Eight of the Philippine English words were added as new entries like:
- CR
- Gigil
- Kababayan
- Lumpia
- Salakot
- Sando
- Thomasite
- Videoke
While the following three Philippine English words were added to the dictionary as new definitions.
- Load
- Terror
- Pinoy