by Johnny Pascua
Can you still remember the Spanish Gov. in the Philippines who gave surnames to the Pilipinos? So many Spanish last names but in ourtown , we have heard lots of ILOCANO surnames and until now they are being used , example .One of our classmates was William Ragadi, the neighbor of Tata Felix Domaoan. The other example of Ilocano surnames are : Palpal (Poblacion); Licudan: &; Domalanta (San Vicente Este) Pula (Toboy) Paet (Bantog) Bagay (Dupac) Mabanglo (Dupac); Colcol (Macalong & Sobol) ; Quidem (San Vucente Este); Ulep (Pob & Car. Norte)Langit (pob) Bucsit (Western Pob.) Chan (pob & San Vicente Este)Padayao Pob. & Domanpot) Pagay (Pob)Romuar (Toboy), may be you can add some more ……okay????? How about Pico (Pick axe)
How about First names and they are also used as Last names?.......example…….Mr. Pablo, Miss Antonio, Mariano, Martin, Santiago, Tomas, Juan, Pedro, ……How about days of the week like Domingo Pascua, Domingo Ramos, Sabado Gloria, , Mr. Viernes….about insects……Mosquito (Car, Norte) and How about this…..Bautista, Botuyan , Butuyan…(Baro & Car. Norte)…Palpallatoc. ……pls. add some more……
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Gee, those years behind the teacher's desk really gave you a wealth of knowledge about local names huh?..The few ones I can add are: My sister's married name is Lomboy..and when they made their screen name it was eat_lomboy with eat meaning ester,anna, teresa ..Ester and her 2 daughters..My buddy Ben Hur Soloria was given that name by her Mom because she saw the Ramon Navarro version of the movie ( black and white version ). There were many mothers in the US at that time who named their sons that way at that time..So I call him the only Asinganian Jew.When I was working in Laguna, I heard re: an employee named Susan..When Susan met me for the first time, I found out she was a young man! But he is in doubt of his sexuality ( u know what I mean )..Then I asked for his REAL name. "Sir, it is Zosimo.."
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