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Because we need it.  Double "L" is pronounced the same way in Spanish, guess they need the sound of it, too.........

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A-E-I-O-U AND SOMETIMES -Y      Y-KNOT?? WOODEN U???

 

 

 

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Just in case you were a real curious type too, I found something...

Y - Quoting Wikipedia: Old English borrowed Latin Y to write the native Old English sound /y/. When the letter came to be analyzed as a V atop an I (First Grammatical Treatise), it was renamed VI (/u: i:/), which was simplified to one syllable (/wi:/), and by the Great Vowel Shift became Modern English 'wy'.

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