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Sari-sari store. A sari-sari store, anglicized as neighborhood sundry store, [ 1] is a convenience store found in the Philippines. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry". Such stores occupy an important economic and social location in a Filipino community and are ubiquitous in neighborhoods and along streets.
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
The Tagalog Wikipedia was launched on 1 December 2003, [citation needed] as the first Wikipedia in a language of the Philippines . As of 3 February 2011, it has more than 50,000 articles. [ 2] Bantayan, Cebu became the 10,000th article on 20 October 2007, while Pasko sa Pilipinas ( Christmas in the Philippines) became the 15,000th article on 24 ...
Filipino and English are the country's official languages. [5] Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog , is spoken primarily in Metro Manila. [ 408 ] Filipino and English are used in government, education, print, broadcast media, and business, often with a third local language; [ 409 ] code-switching between English and other local ...
The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as editor-in ...
An ukay-ukay ( Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky ), or wagwagan (Ilocano pronunciation|wɐgˈwaːgɐn}} wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are ...
www .dti .gov .ph. The Department of Trade and Industry ( Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya, abbreviated as DTI) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the advancement, promotion, governance, regulation, management and growth of industry and trade.
The word palengke is a local variant of the Spanish word palenque, literally meaning " (wooden) palisade or stockade " and by extension the area enclosed by such a structure for defense, public festivals or some other purpose. [ 5] The Spanish word is also used to describe a pathway or cluster of tables set up at some place of gathering such as ...