NGALANG PINOY: A Primer On Filipino Wordplay

Welcome to Pinoyland, where every pun is gleefully intended! Only in the Philippines will you bump into a hair salon named Felix d'Cut, a money-changer unabashedly named Starbucks, and a Japanese takeout restaurant named Ta-Ke Ho-Me. And where else in the world will you find parents calling their children Bingbing, Dingdong and other doorbell nicknames? It's a mad,mad Pinoy world in this ribtickling companion to the runaway bestseller You Know You're Filipino If...A Pinoy Primer. Cruz and Llana shine the spotlight on the most beguiling names Filipinos have coined under the sun. Whether blithely copying the West or thumbing their nose at Webster, Pinoys are celebrated in this book as marvelous innovators of language.