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Re: Nationality or ethnicity with the definite article.





Michael Edwards wrote:

And why is "the Philippines" plural? (I supppose being in the plural form
here will almost guarantee that it will be prefixed with the definite article.)

They're an archipelago--Philippine Islands.

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