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Why do people imply Philippines as "The Philippines"?

  • I always come through many sites and they always imply Philippines as "The Philippines" and not just Philippines

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    Some people will argue that because of the s at the end, that is just part of the reason. The reason is that, as someone have already noted, when you say "The Philippines" you are referring to a group or not just one country, much like a whole group of islands. And nobody is implying anything when they do, they are just properly reffering to it. And thus you also say "The Bahamas". "The United States of America", "The Aleutians" or "The Aleutian Islands" and many more examples all over the world. This is not just an only in the Philippines kind of thing.

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what about "The United States"?? My guess--I think it's because it ends in an s (plural)?? If it was Phillipine you wouldn't include a 'The'. For example: France, Germany, Canada etc... You don't say 'The France', 'The Germany', 'The Canada'....

MK

Because it's supposed to be like that. It's really not called United States, it's called THE United States.

i am confused

It's just how the name of your country is rendered in English. In German, Switzerland is known as 'die Schweiz' never just 'Schweiz', even though France is simply 'Frankreich'.

Rudie Can't Fail

We're talking about a group of islands named after King Phillip the Second of Spain. Maybe it's unfair to name a country after the king of some other country, but that's what the name means. So they were called 'The Philippine Islands'. Or 'The Philippines' for short. 'The Philippines' means 'The islands of King Phillip'. Many groups of islands are named this way. The Hawaiian Islands, The Aleutian Islands, The Azores, the Canaries, the Seychelles, etc.

Mr. Smartypants

Because Philippines ends with an "S", it sounds plural. Like "the" United States. As opposed to France, people don't say "the" France.

Because the official name of the country is the Republic of the Philippines, hence the Philippines

the dreamy blonde

It just sounds better than "PHILIPPINE" or "THE PHILIPPINE" Maybe also because of so many islands. Just shorter than The Philippine Islands

The Dogfather

because THE Philippines is short for The Philippine Islands. it's plural and it needs an article to indicate reference being made to a group of Islands. for grammar's sake, take out the "s" and ask yourself "what's a Philippine?" it's an adjective, not a proper noun. that's why THE Philippines is grammatically correct. if you add an article to a proper noun (like that school calling themselves "THE Ateneo"), it's implying a certain definition to that noun.

Papa Alpha Oscar

Because: 1. The Philippines is an archipelago. It's made up of different islands all belonging to one group/country. 2. It's a formal name

Mr. Trivia

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