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Tonight's Trivia Question to Ponder - beckycan - 07-04-2007
Random Trivia Question -- I don't know the answer -- Why are people from the Phillipines called Filipinos -- PH vs F at the beginning of the words?? :confused:
Becky
Tonight's Trivia Question to Ponder - auminer49r - 07-05-2007
I don't know... I can't PHigure it out? :confused:
hilarious
It's a good question.
Tonight's Trivia Question to Ponder - twitterflix - 07-06-2007
Here's a guess...Maybe the "ph" was too confusing and too hard to remember, so they decided to put an "f" there instead of a "ph" because "f" is easier to remember than "ph" for pronunciation.
Tonight's Trivia Question to Ponder - AGS - 07-06-2007
beckycan Wrote:Random Trivia Question -- I don't know the answer -- Why are people from the Phillipines called Filipinos -- PH vs F at the beginning of the words?? :confused:
Becky
The phillipines were colonized by Imperial Spain during the age of european imperialism and the islanders adopted many customs from their invaders such as language and religion (Catholicism)......
filipino is a spanish term for philipines.....
Tonight's Trivia Question to Ponder - beckycan - 07-06-2007
Well, that makes sense -- I knew someone would come up with a good reason for the 2 spellings!
Becky