Did you know that the islands were dubbed “the Philippines” after King Philip II of Spain?
And did you know that depending on the method of classification, there are 125 to 170 languages in use in the Philippines, such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray, and Kapampangan?
“The sloop I have the honour to command is always ready to put to sea,” saidClonfert. That was mere rodomontade : no ship was always ready to put to seaunless she never used up any water, stores, powder or shot …
She knows what she’s about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she’ll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage,he flatters himself that she’s devotedly attached to him…