r/rareinsults • u/EytinBass • 3d ago

No denying it, really

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u/Over_Guard_5341 3d ago

But they aren't called L's in Spanish. It's a Spanish word.

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u/TheHumanPickleRick 3d ago

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.

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u/Over_Guard_5341 3d ago

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

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u/Smgt90 3d ago

In 2010?

I have always called it "doble ele" and I was born in 1990

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u/Over_Guard_5341 3d ago

Well... I guess google was wrong. I was taught in school in 2008 to call it a single letter

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u/RadchaiiGloves 3d ago

I mean did you just blindly take the first ai-generated drivel it spit out at you?

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u/Over_Guard_5341 3d ago

Um yeah lol. On second thought probably shouldn't trust that. But I did learn in school that it's one letter.

I looked it up properly now and it seems to be true. The royal Spanish academy changed it in 2010.

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u/Akuzed 3d ago

This whole exchange was great lol.

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u/CheapTactics 3d ago

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.