Vicente I. de Veyra

Vicente Ignacio Luangco de Veyra (February 1, 1888 – March 10, 1975), who also used the pseudonyms Vatchoo and Honey Boy, was a Waray poet, writer, anthologist, orthographer and dentist.

[1][2] A nephew of the Commonwealth-era politician Jaime C. de Veyra, he was a member of the Sanghiran san Binisaya, an early 20th-century association dedicated to the promotion of Waray culture[3][4] and the intellectualization of the Waray language and Waray literature.

[5][6][7] As an anthologist, de Veyra collected stories, riddles, poems and proverbs from all over the province of Leyte, while as an orthographer he compiled orthographic rules for the Waray language.

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