Ano

I feel so dumb.

My pride just went down a few notches.

I take pride in myself for being good in conversational and written english. I feel my stomach twitch every time I hear people talk in mixed tagalog and english; But today, for the first time in my life, I unintentionally did it too! While talking to my boss.

Boss: So how do you delete it?
Kayan: You have to use the ANO.
Kayan: The computer.
Boss: (laughed a little) Okay, so I have to use the ANO.
Kayan: Hehehe. Yeah, the ano.

P.S.
Ano = What.
Filipinos usually use the 'ano' word to fill in into anything when they run out of english. Nose bleed.

P.P.S.
In my defense, my boss made me speed drive this morning. The usual 15-20 minute drive became 7 minutes because he called me and he needed something from me before he leaves for his meeting (he says he needs to leave in 10 minutes). So while I was talking to him my body and mind and heart was still in a rush because of the panic from the said speeding (thank goodness there were no cops!!!).