Lost words and phrases
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 musty!
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 musty!
Alila is a servant, later evolving into the more democratic katulong, ate, or the classier “maid.” Once I visited a gay friend whose also gay katulong opened the door, in a uniform and ruffled apron, who introduced herself proudly as “the maid.”
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