![]() ![]() ![]() The grip of English in the Philippines signifies an enduring and flawed image of national development that is monocentric with an English-dominant core. ![]() An initial result and contribution of the study to this field of research is a table of the most prevalent features of Philippine English in Filipino words using Bautista & Gonzalez (1992) and Borlongan (2007) vis-a-vis the most popular word-formation processes in Filipino-Philippine English based on Zorc (1996), Abello (2002), Reyes-Otero (2002), and KWF (2004). ![]() The paper identifies the features exhibited by and the word-formation processes involved in the new words from Sawikaan's Words of the Year winners that were entered in the University of the Philippines' Diksiyunaryong Filipino (2010) and are at the same time standard words in the Oxford Dictionary of World English Online (2010). The exploratory-descriptive study tries to show that the two languages of the Philippine bilingual educational system-two languages-in-progress-are heading to a convergence as it proves empirically that Filipino is no different from and is contributing to the expansion, development, and evolution of Philippine English as both are codified in the standard lexicons of the two languages. ![]()
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