Right now, only National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. The history is simple and may be traced to the rare recounting of the development of the National Language called “Filipino,” and its root and basis, Tagalog.
“Past and current” means that a little history may help resolve the issue and that Filipino names like “Pablo Fernandez” and not “Pablo Pernandez” are perfectly all right, and that even the original “ talyada” or screaming gay character created by the komiks writer Mars Ravelo, “Facifica Falayfay” - made into a rollicking and sympathetic film by the National Artist Lino Brocka, and given flesh onscreen by the late great comedian, Dolphy - has a perfectly possible spelling. Just these two instances will demonstrate the inconsistency in past and current speech and orthography, or the oral and written speech of Filipinos. On the other hand, the same speakers whose parents were more or less educated in the old Hispanized orthography, or later in American English, do in fact use the letter F in pronouncing surnames like Fernandez or first names like Fidel.
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