@OldBastard 31 July 2021 more from that month

Fumbling Around In Bisaya Despite being a Spanish colony for centuries, the Philippines never seems to have adopted Spanish on a widespread basis. Instead, various native languages are spoken throughout the islands. Here in western Mindanao the prevailing language is something called Bisaya. If you happen to be in Cebu, you would also be speaking this language, but you would call it Cebuano. Different sources may differ as to whether Cebuano is interchangeable with Bisaya. Here is an article on this if you want to DYOR: https://www.livingincebuforums.com/topic/110234-cebuano-v-bisaya-exactly-the-same-or-not/ . Can't get enough? Check out Wikipedia's entry on Cebuano: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebuano_language . If you live on Bohol, you speak what my wife calls Boholese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boholano_dialect . While verbs and sentence structure are nothing like Spanish, (and thus indecipherable to me), many Spanish words for nouns have been borrowed into the language, such as zapatos and sombrero. But these words are sometimes mangled while being borrowed. Look at the attached pic. See the sign above the store? Do you know what it says? Would it help if you sounded out the words, assuming they were written by someone who doesn't know how to properly spell in Spanish? bente kwatro oras = veinticuatro horas !! (At least according to my wife!) By the way, the woman in the upstairs window looking the other way, was highly amused by the "krazy kano" standing in the middle of the parking lot taking pictures of the store.