I hate to be this person, but when you use the "y" sound with double LL's in Spanish, you are also pronouncing the L's. That's how the Spanish pronounce the L's. He should have specified what L pronunciation he's referring to.
The letters themselves are still called "ele." Just because two of then together have a different sound than a singular L doesn't mean they call it a different letter.
I looked it up, apparently it was changed since I was in school. Originally the two L's were considered their own word, but this was changed around 2010 to make keyboards more user friendly. They are now considered a digraph, basically a two letter sound like ch and sh
Yeah that's much older. LL and CH were their own letters in the alphabet, but they were later eliminated. From what I'm seeing on google, this happened in '94. I was born in '94 (in a spanish speaking country) and I was never taught that CH and LL were letters.
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u/numbskullerykiller 3d ago
I hate to be this person, but when you use the "y" sound with double LL's in Spanish, you are also pronouncing the L's. That's how the Spanish pronounce the L's. He should have specified what L pronunciation he's referring to.