diskwento
Cebuano
Etymology
From diskuwento.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dis‧kwen‧to
Noun
diskwento
- a discount; a reduction in price
Tagalog
Noun
diskwento
- Former spelling of diskuwento which is no longer standard under new Tagalog spelling conventions outlined by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.
Usage notes
The spelling diskwento is discouraged by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) under its new orthographical rules because it uses three or more consecutive consonants, which do not follow the native syllable structures of consonant-vowel or consonant-vowel-consonant. Words spelled with ng and a consonant, and vice versa counts as two consonants, and are exempted. Exceptions apply in loanwords where it is originally spelled with a triphthong but respelling them to follow Tagalog syllable structure is not applicable. See Appendix:Tagalog orthography for more details.