Since November 28, 2010 the Spanish Alphabet has changed dramatically, 2 of 29 letters have disappeared. An international summit of 22 academies from 22 Spanish speaking countries is reducing it to 27 letters (the English alphabet plus Ñ), removing CH and LL from the alphabet. Additional changes have been made to the names of different letters.
The initiated a set of changes in many aspects of Spanish Language. of the Association of Spanish Language Academies in Guadalajara (Mexico) had the mission to approve the changes and to make them official everywhere. The idea was to unify and to simplify the Spanish spelling and to clarify some aspects of the Spanish grammar. When this is affecting some 500 million Spanish speakers, it has to be a big event and a headache for thousands of Spanish teachers and students.
The names of some letters have been clarified or changed: • B becomes be • V becomes uve instead of ve, to avoid confusion with B • Y becomes ye instead of i griega • W becomes uve doble instead of doble ve.