the randomly placed "h" in your name is your parents' attempt at giving you a better life. After all, that was the practice with the Spanish
thetoolboxpoet
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Sadly in a world where they are no longer in power on these Islands, the "h" loses class and becomes a transparent attempt...
thetoolboxpoet
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...at social climbing.
thetoolboxpoet
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You ask me, "Why then, do you sometimes spell your name with an 'h'?"
thetoolboxpoet
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Perhaps it's a fool's attempt at showing you how stupid it looks in some other poor sap's name.
"Dhexther?"
thetoolboxpoet
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Perhaps it's a way for me to be Filipino in my way, to share in the national folly.
thetoolboxpoet
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"Dhex" po. But I've gone so far as to try that variation as well.
thetoolboxpoet
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It is also perhaps a confession that underneath my egalitarian shell is an elitist dandy.
K p0H
thetoolboxpoet
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Whell, nho one ihs perfhect.
thetoolboxpoet
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and nhames are often things yhou have to lhive with. A craptastic gift from your parents, perhaps, but a gift given out of lolve
LOLing at LOLVE 
thetoolboxpoet
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(sadly "Rhomer loves Ghilda" still looks godawful whether painted on jeepney walls or etched on trees.)
thetoolboxpoet
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i mis-typed my "H" for that one 
Kyemerlu
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Kyemerlu
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thetoolboxpoet
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thetoolboxpoet
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i'm lhoopy frhom the mheds
