Philippines: are or is?
Over at Twitter, @caffeinesparks and @hotmanila were discussing MS Word and its insistence on pluralizing the Philippines, and so I pointed them in the direction of these blog entries that discuss whether the Philippines is or are.
Filipino Librarian: Talumpati: Manuel L. Quezon
Filipino Librarian: The Philippines
Filipino Librarian: <i>The</i> Philippines: Singular <i>and</i> Plural
The Philippines are or is? : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
Filipino Librarian: The Philippines <i>are</i> or <i>is</i>?
This audio recording from 1922 points to the old usage of “the Philippines are.”
