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The Tagalog (Tag) heavy borrowing from Spanish (Sp) through the 16th-early 20th cent. has resulted in: (1) borrowing of Sp affixes and creation of Tag-Sp hybrids; (2) hispanization of English (Eng) loanwords as a mode of their assimilation (e.g. Wolff 1973). Presently the intense Tag-Eng code-switching provides for (3) Eng nonce borrowing in the Tag derivational frame (“inserted stems with native affixes”, in Muysken’s terms). In an attempt to assess the impact of such Sp and Eng hybrids on the Tag system, pieces of random Tag news and non-/fiction published in 2005-2015 (135000 words, 37500 unique) have been analyzed.