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  2. Queer - Wikipedia

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    [6] [12] The Northern English expression "there's nowt so queer as folk", meaning "there is nothing as strange as people", employs this meaning. [13] Related meanings of queer include a feeling of unwellness or something that is questionable or suspicious.

  3. PayPal - Wikipedia

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    eBay, PayPal, Kijiji and StubHub, 500 King Street West, Toronto, April 2014. PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

  4. Ukay-ukay - Wikipedia

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    Wagwagan in Baguio City. 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.

  5. Digitization - Wikipedia

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    The term digitization is often used when diverse forms of information, such as an object, text, sound, image, or voice, are converted into a single binary code.The core of the process is the compromise between the capturing device and the player device so that the rendered result represents the original source with the most possible fidelity, and the advantage of digitization is the speed and ...

  6. Laguna Copperplate Inscription - Wikipedia

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    After it was found, the text was first translated in 1991 by Antoon Postma, [3] a Dutch anthropologist and Hanunó'o script researcher. [ 1 ] The inscription documents the existence and names of several surrounding states as of A.D. 900, such as the Tagalog city-state of Tondo . [ 1 ]

  7. Abakada alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Abakada alphabet was an "indigenized" Latin alphabet adopted for the Tagalog-based Wikang Pambansa (now Filipino) in 1939. [1] The alphabet, which contains 20 letters, was introduced in the grammar book developed by Lope K. Santos for the newly-designated national language based on Tagalog. [2]

  8. Tanghulu - Wikipedia

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    Tanghulu (/ t ɑː ŋ ˈ h uː l uː / ⓘ) or tang hulu (traditional Chinese: 糖葫蘆; simplified Chinese: 糖葫芦; pinyin: táng húlu; lit. 'sugar calabash'), also called bingtang hulu (冰糖葫蘆; 冰糖葫芦; bīngtáng húlu; 'rock-sugar calabash'), is a traditional Chinese snack consisting of several rock sugar-coated fruits of Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida) on a bamboo ...

  9. Bluetooth - Wikipedia

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    A Bluetooth earbud, an earphone and microphone that communicates with a cellphone using the Bluetooth protocol. Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).