 Among the attacks was the use of the letters "k" and "w" as they were deemed to be of German origin and thus its proponents were deemed as "unpatriotic".The publishers of these two papers would eventually merge as "La Lectura Popular" in January 1890 and would eventually make use of both spelling systems in its articles.Pedro Laktaw, a schoolteacher, published the first Spanish-Tagalog dictionary using the new orthography in 1890.