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On The Japanese Etymology of ‘Katol’

Fellow Filipinos, remember this?

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This sure is one timeless commercial, oh [in]famous Dragon Katol. The line “Dragon kung umuwsok… leymowk seyguradong teypok!”1 never gets old. So… katol.

If only she had Dragon Katol, tsk.2

Katol is the Tagalog word for mosquito coil or mosquito incense, and apparently, it was adopted from the Japanese word 蚊取 [katori], its [...]

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