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wxyz so overrated 🥱

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Elemenopee is the undisputed high point.

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    • snoons@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s the only other starting point when trying to figure out where something is in a library or something.

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  • Disk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Call me crazy but LMNOP stands on the shoulders of HiJK. Give my boy at least a B

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My thoughts exactly. You need a build up for a drop to really hit which HIJK carries with beauty and grace

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s the ladders on the slide.

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    • Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      🐝

      His name is George :)

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  • brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hard disagree on WXYZ. C tier. Maybe B tier at best.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d knock down even further than that, tbh.
      C at best.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have bad news on how it’s taught now

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right. By alphabetical order of pronunciation.

      Aitch, are, ayy, bee, dee, dubble-yuu, cue, eee, ecks, el, em, en, ess, eye, eff, jay, jee, kay, oh, pee, see, tea, you, vee, why, zed.

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        dubble-yuu, cue en, em You sure?

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    • guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Abc def ghi jkl mno pqr stu vwx yz

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  • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The “updated” alphabet song need not be mentioned

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Uh what

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      • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m sorry

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Long live Zed.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A traditional anatolian wedding with english alphabet song, in a Turkish accent, being sung by Kapici Namik

    (Credits to artist Kapici Namik for this)

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just how I remember learning it in elementary school.

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  • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    LMNOP feels like you’re going down a slide.

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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like wxyz in french. I took french like 30 years ago but the alphabet was sticky due to the last bit.

    (This is phonetics/pronunciation, ofc, same melody)

    Doobluh-vay (double v), eeks (x, but you saw a mouse), eegrek (???), zed (zed sounds much cooler than zee, which ironically sounds more French to me)

    Hands down the best part of the French alphabet.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m Italian and the letters sounds similar to French: doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta. But the standard Italian alphabet only has 21 letters, and w, x and y are not part of the alphabet (together with j and k).

      By the way, the name of “y” in French means “greek i”

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    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think the British use zed also don’t they?

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    • renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When I learned German alphabet Y is _epsilon _…

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  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Twinkle, twinkle little star

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    • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Baa baa black sheep

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      • jxk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Quand trois poules vont au champ

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  • ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read about somebody naming their kid Abcde, claiming it was pronounced like ‘ab city’… meanwhile, Elemenope and Kiuares were right there.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just tell everyone that Elemenope is a Greek name.

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      • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Eleonore?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    QRSTUV being ranked so low is purely a skill/commitment issue. You’ve gotta hit that shit with gusto, stick your chest out and enunciate every letter like it’s Les Mis or a military march. KYOO! ARRRR! ESSSSSS! TEEEEEEYOOOOOUVEEEE.

    It’s one of your few opportunities to hit a nice, long, steady stride.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Elemeno Peeeee

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org is definitely S tier

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  • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Had a kid recently… They changed the song so LMNOP isn’t so rapid fire for new babies

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How secondhand do the babies have to get before it speeds back up?

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I will dare to mention the new version; LMNOP is knocked down a peg because those bastards have confused young children for centuries! The new king is XYZ, especially with that non-letter &.

    Forget that Mozart played the original melody in the Twelve Variations!

    That said, shout out to the rollercoaster one Simple Songs did. I am partial to their ABCDEFGH.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m trying to picture how this sounds. If it is “zed”, does it just not rhyme with T-U-V ?

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      • Mohamed@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It would sorta rhyme with X instead?

        Double U Ex, Y and Zed

        Idk

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        T-U-Ved, W-X-Y-Zed

        Seems alright to me.

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you, Just Kidding about that C tier?

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sure, but move “WXYZ” up if you pronounce it “zed” but drop it down 3 for “zee”.

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    • urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      bee cee dee eee gee pee tee vee

      “oh cool we have that awesome linguistic pattern that is on 8 letters already, want to round it out with that?”

      “nah”

      “zed”

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wow, another “ee” sound purist huh?

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Imagine not putting all of RSTLNE in S tier, SMH

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I want to see how other oanguages put this. They pronounce the letters slightlly different in each language.

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pretty sure elemenopee is universally S-tier in all languages.

      Source: Wordologist, Ph.D.

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      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m actually curious how it’s sung in Spanish, they have a few extra letters in the critical range.

        l, ll, m, n, ñ, o, p

        I took Spanish in highschool but that was a long time ago. I vaguely recall learning a weird version of the alphabet song that starts with A, B, C, CH, D, E, F as the first grouping, but I can’t recall how it went past that.

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    • ijustliketrains@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think WXYZ is the best part of the French alphabet. Doublavay, Eeks, Eegrek, et Zed

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