Editing Regional accents of English (section)

===Philippines===
{{Main|Philippine English}}

Philippine English employs a rhotic accent that originated from the time it was first introduced by Americans during the colonization period in an attempt to replace Spanish as the dominant political language. As there are no /f/ or /v/ sounds in most native languages in the Philippines, [p] is used as an alternative to /f/ as [b] is to /v/. The words "fifty" and "five" are often pronounced as {{not a typo|"pipty"}} and {{not a typo|"pibe"}} by many Filipinos. Similarly, /θ/ is often changed to [t] and /ð/ to [d].<ref>{{cite book |last=Tayao |first=Ma. Lourdes |editor-last1=Bautista |editor-first1=Ma. Lourdes |editor-last2=Bolton |editor-first2=Kingsley |title=Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |date=2008 |pages=157–174 |chapter= A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English}}</ref>

"Three" becomes /tri/ while "that" becomes /dat/. This feature is consistent with many other Malayo-Polynesian languages. /z/ is often devoiced to [s], whereas [ʒ] is often devoiced to [ʃ] or affricated to [dʒ], so words like "zoo", "measure", and "beige" may be pronounced [su], [ˈmɛʃoɾ], and [beɪdʒ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Tayao |first=Ma. Lourdes |editor-last1=Bautista |editor-first1=Ma. Lourdes |editor-last2=Bolton |editor-first2=Kingsley |title=Philippine English: Linguistic and Literary |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |date=2008 |pages=157–174 |chapter= A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English}}</ref>

Apart from the frequent inability to pronounce certain fricatives (e.g., [f], [v], [θ], [ð], [z], [ʒ]), in reality, there is no single Philippine English accent. This is because native languages influence spoken English in different ways throughout the archipelago. For instance, those from [[Visayas]] usually interchange the sounds /e/ and /i/ as well as /o/ and /u/ because the distinction between those phonemes is not very pronounced in Visayan languages.

People from the northern Philippines may pronounce /r/ as a strong trill instead of a tap, which is more commonly used in the rest of the Philippines, as the trill is a feature of the [[Ilocano language]]. Ilocano people generally pronounce the schwa sound /ə/ better than other Filipinos because they use a similar sound in their native language that is missing from many other Philippine languages.