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BobT | 07:16 Sun 15th Sep 2002 | People & Places
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Why are the Phillipines spelt with a 'Ph' yet their natives are Fillipino's spelt with an 'F'
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It's peculiar, isn't it? The Spanish for Philip, the King after whom the islands are named is of course Felipe, and this spelling is used for the inhabitants. (Apparently, the term Filipino/a was originally used only for those inhabitants who were partly Spanish, but then spread to everybody.) Perhaps the official name of the nation, spelt in the English way with a Ph dates to the period during which it belonged to the US, before it attained independence in 1946.
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