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Ok, Cobble, Slopey who is very diplomatic and wise, suggested I figure out a way to disengage from the Chill thing so I promise to tell you at the Clambake. Dont want to get myself going again.

A cuban guy who grew up in Florida uses the “y” sound for “ll”. He has two sets of double “l”‘s in his name. And was very impressed when I spelled his name correctly never having seen it written!

“They turn the ‘ll’ into a ‘j’ (meadajean)”

I heard that Dominicans do that as well.

dona, I don’t speak it, well, very little. But Mrs D is Colombian, and I enjoy hearing differences in the language, which actually I can pick up quite well. I’ve been to Spain and several Latin American countries, and I have friends in others.

In fact I have had huge arguments with Mrs. D over the proper pronunciation of the ‘ll’, cuz here Colombians from Medellin differ from the rest of the world. They turn the ‘ll’ into a ‘j’ (meadajean) where elsewhere it is a more delicate cross between a ‘th’ and a ‘y’, and something else I can say but it doesn’t lend itself to writing phonetically.