Some Filipinos refer to themselves as "Pinoy" or sometimes the feminine Pinay ( ) instead of the standard term, "Filipino". Filipino is the widespread word to call the people in the Philippines. The word can be formed by taking the last four letters of "Filipino" and adding the diminutive suffix -y in the Tagalog language (the suffix is commonly used in Filipino nicknames: e.g. "Nonoy" or "Kokoy" or "Toytoy"). "Pinoy" was used for self-identification by the first wave of Filipinos going to the continental United States before World War II and has been used both in a pejorative sense and as a term of endearment, similar to "Desi".