Philipino, Phillipino or Philippino? Whatever.. Are you looking for Philippino girls?
It all started with “Pinakbet”. A blogger of mine posted the recipe on how to cook pinakbet and tried fixing the title with a few more words… that’s then the word appeared – Philippino.
I did a quick search and noticed too that many people, non-Filipino syempre, use the word incorrectly. Filipino is what they want to search but since they know the spelling of Philippines, they most of the times spelled out “Phillipino” instead. (Enough excuses, mali pa rin eh, bat double “L”?).
Because the spelling of Philippines begins with a “ph”, it is easily assumed that the term for a citizen must also be spelled with a “ph”. This is just like referring to someone from Portugal as Portuguese or from France as French, or Koreans for Korea or Chinese from China.. you get the picture.
So, here comes the cool trivia of why we are called Filipino/Pilipino when the Philippines is spelled with a “PH”. If you do a little history research, the answer has to do with the old name for Philippines. When the country was first colonized by Spain, they give the archipelago the name “Las Islas Filipinas” and its inhabitants “Filipinos”. When it was American’s turn to colonize the country, it was renamed “Philippines”. However, the term “Filipino” stuck….
Credits and stuff from here on forth is from: http://www.arkhilario.com/2009/08/01/philipino-phillipino-philippino/
Filipino also refers to the official language of the Philippines which is based on the Tagalog dialect.
As of the June 2009 national statistics, there are 92 million Filipinos living in the Philippines and about 11 million living outside of which 3 million are in the United States, with Saudi Arabia coming second with 1 million.
Filipinos usually refer to themselves informally as Pinoy or Pinay (feminine). A Filipino is also derogatorily called as a Flip. It has a negative connotation because flip is used to mean “crazy”.
Filipino is popularized in the song “Bebot” by Black Eyed Peas from the album “Monkey Business”. Member apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo in real life) who sang the song is a Filipino. Here’s the music video:
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