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“The dictionary is committed to making space for words from the Philippines.”
In 1884, the very first Filipino word was officially added to the English language: abaca. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is "a kind of banana plant, Musa textilis, native to the Philippines, the petioles of which yield a strong fiber. ...
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