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  2. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38]

  3. List of Tagalog literary works - Wikipedia

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    Ang Huling Timawa by Servando de Los Angeles, 1936. Kayumanggi at Iba Pang Mga Tula by Amado V. Hernandez, 1940. Timawa (Free Person/Slave) by Agustin Fabian, 1953. Luha ng Buwaya by Amado V. Hernandez, 1963. Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (In the Claws of Brightness) by Edgardo M. Reyes, 1966–1967. Dekada '70 by Lualhati Bautista, 1983.

  4. Baybayin - Wikipedia

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    The earliest printed book in a Philippine language, featuring both Tagalog in baybayin and transliterated into the Latin script, is the 1593 Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y Tagala. The Tagalog text was based mainly on a manuscript written by Fr. Juan de Placencia. Friars Domingo de Nieva and Juan de San Pedro Martyr supervised the ...

  5. Crazy for You (Madonna song) - Wikipedia

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    The song has a basic sequence of E–A–B–A as its chord progression. [10] Its lyrics talk about attraction, sexual desire, and "[the] feelings that [Modine's character] won't just come out and say". [2] [11] The introduction features an oboe and an electric guitar chord that slides from one motif to the other. [7]

  6. Philippine English - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.

  7. The Man Who Sold the World (song) - Wikipedia

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    Songwriter (s) David Bowie. Producer (s) Tony Visconti. Official lyric video. "The Man Who Sold The World" [2020 Mix] on YouTube. " The Man Who Sold the World " is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The title track of Bowie's third studio album, it was released in November 1970 in the US and in April 1971 in the UK by Mercury ...

  8. Music of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1950s, native performers adapted Tagalog lyrics for North American rock & roll music, resulting in the seminal origins of Philippine rock. The most notable achievement in Philippine rock of the 1960s was the hit song "Killer Joe", which propelled the group, Rocky Fellers, reaching number 16 on the American radio charts.

  9. Song of Songs - Wikipedia

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    Song of Songs. The Song of Songs ( Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים‎, romanized: Shīr ha-Shīrīm ), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh. It is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it ...