Someone just asked me why is Philippines spelled with a PH but Filipino is spell with an F, i didnt really know the answer, but my guess would be something along the lines of; in the Tagalog language there are no letters F and H and F and P are used interchangeably....

and maybe Americans turned Pilipino to Filipino? iono... what is the answer?

I think it might be the Spanish???

From the Spanish Felipinas then the people is called Filipinos.....

PHillippines is actually not spanish, it might be originally English or maybe French. Filipino is spanish which the flips kept in use.

Philippines is the English name while it is Felipinas in Spanish then as time pass by Filipinas then Philipinized it to Pilipinas.

That is were Pinoy and Pinay got their name................

cool - learnt something about the Filipines

so what do the Native people of the Filipines call their country

also what does Pinoy mean?

Pinoy ( male) is a slang word for filipino male while a Pinay ( female) is a slang word for Filipina.

so is it good slang - or depends like the word nigga

no way, not even close. I mean it is good slang. It is totally acceptable, like Pinoy is how we filipinos call each other. To most non filos we are filipinos but to us, we are pinoys/pinays.

oh ok - thanks for clearing it up - so i can call you Pinoy and that's coo!

Did you get it?

As far as I know Pilipino is the tagalog for Filipino... can't be sure, though

yup. traditionally there's no f's or v's in most filipino dialects. therefore filipino though official, is still pilipino in tagalog.

But still a lot people are mistaken by the spelling............

They spell it Philippinos.............

Yeah, they follow the first two letters of our countries name.

According to some people in the United States the spelling appear in their textbooks

No kidding? I haven't seen 'Philippinos' in the dictionary, what I see is Pilipino and Filipino

^^ yea, there's no such kind of word in the dictionary.