Why is the Philippines spelled w/a Ph but if your Filipino, it's spelled w/a F?
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we didn't have the letter F in our alphabet before. that's why, we were called "pilipino" waaay back. but when this language decree was passed(i forgot what it's called) new letters were added to our alphabet. like C F Z...\n\nthat's why, if we were to write  our nationality on papers and stuff, we put "Filipino".\n\nand philippines was named after the king of spain king philip
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Please Check your spellings, I tried to search it on the net and could not find anything with these spellings.\nTake care and God Bless you !
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I imagine every town has their own "A St.", "B St.", "C St.", "D St.", etc. I think we have A-F here in my town. (Northern California) That whole section of town is kind of a ghetto like area. It's sort of interesting to me that almost any city I've been to that has short street names like that, also has their ghetto area there.
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You spelled it right, it is the pronunciation that most get wrong, they say gover-ment most of the time, people tend to forget there is a "N" in there.
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When A/F is used in the way you described, it is abbreviation for Always Friends. In dialogue online where women are concerned AF is the abbreviation for Aunt Flo, our friendly monthly cycle ; )
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Pinoy is a term used by Filipinos for their compatriots in the Philippines and around the world. Filipinos usually refer to themselves informally as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of the word 'Pilipino' and adding the diminutive suffix -y. The word was coined by expatriate Filipino Americans during the 1920s and was later adopted by Filipinos in the Philippines.\n\nPinoy is a term of endearment and is rarely used in formal settings. The term is akin to that of a nickname which is used by close family members and friends so that one who uses it somehow already developed some close ties with Filipinos.\n\nThe term especially gained popular currency in the late 1970s in the Philippines when a surge in patriotism made a hit song of Filipino folksinger Heber Bartolome's "Tayo'y mga Pinoy" (We are Filipinos).
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These two countries are neighbors. Philippines is located above the Sulawesi island of indonesia.\nThus, people from sulawesi is very similar to filipino.\nSimilar food, similar language, even similar personality. Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia have similar language, they have the same roots
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You may need to check the spelling.
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They are spelt differently
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All I can say is it's better than getting and "F".\n\n\n\nAnd there's no "F" in SPELLING , either!!!
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I think someone is playin a joke here. The R is correct it stands for "roped in" but should be F
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filipino and canadian. hes both! hes fil-canadian!
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Are you sure it isn't?\n\nNote that "ph" pronounced as /f/ is actually is a long-recognized representation  of the f-sound. Specifically, it is a "digraph" -- or set of two letters used to represent one sound.  Other standard digraphs in English are "ch", "sh" and "th".   \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Value\n\nOf course, in all those cases, the alphabet lacks a consonant to represent the sound (esp. since the loss of the letters called "thorn"  and "eth"-- used for the "th" sounds [with the voice -"the"; without the voice "math"]).  So why the "ph" when we have "f"?   \n\nEnglish borrowed it for Greek words borrowed THROUGH Latin.  It was in Latin that certain conventions for representing the Greek sounds was developed.  One of these was "ph" for the Greek letter "phi".  (Originally, in the Latin borrowing the sound of "ph" was different from Latin "f", which explains why this new convention developed.)    By keeping the "historical orthography [=spelling]" in these cases it is still possible to recognize words of Greek origin, and sometimes to tell something more about how the word is pronounced.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_of_Greek_origin#The_written_form_of_Greek_words_in_English\n\n\nBut WHY did Latin use "pH" for this sound?     They got it from the GREEKS !!\n\nSee the end of this article:\n\n"H"\n"The use (of H) in digraphs (e.g. -sh-, -th-) goes back to the ancient Gk. alphabet, which used it in -ph-, -th-, -kh- until -H- took on the value of a long "e" and the digraphs acquired their own characters. The letter passed into Roman use before this evolution, and thus retained there more of its original Sem. value."\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=h\n\n------------------------\n\nAs for the use of C (instead of K) --  the 'hard' pronunciation of "c" for words of Latin origin is common and ancient
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i think its "C" but im not sure...could be an informal though! lol
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I think "jail" is the American spelling. A lot of the American dictionary writers in the 18th century wanted to create an American spelling system that better reflected its pronunciation. This is why a lot of American spellings differ from British spellings. Some people/places just develop preference for one or the other, as they seemed to with "jail".
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greetings...\n\nphilippines was ones considered as the third largest english speaking country in the world next to US and the UK.\nbut that is no longer the case... the filipinos were taking for granted the gift of english which they had...\nas what current conditions in the philippines imply, english is of much significance being the universal language...\nwithout the proper practice of english filipinos might might forever plunge into a third world country...\nbut on the other hand, it is the english language that can pull the philippines from the claws of poverty...\n\ni hope i was able to help.......
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Just like an asian . . . cheap bastards . . . lol.\n\nIt's okay . . . I am asian too . . . born in the Philippines.