The LMNOP problem (alphabet song history)

I can't tell if he is making it up or if there are vast swathes of people out there, who grew up in the English language world and think that lmnop is one single letter (not 5 individual letters).  It's an amusing watch either way.

Also, twinkle star.  Why did i never notice?

Watching the rest of the video and hearing the new song, I have to admit an extreme dislike.

With dyslexia, lmnop was a godsend,  here was an anchor point in the alphabet. It's a different rhythm and letters either belong before, after, or inside.  Make it all the same rythm, and I'm all at sea.  Thank goodness, I learned the alphabet when i did.

See, alphabet song is useful to know the order of the alphabet.

r ransom wrote:I can't tell if he is making it up or if there are vast swathes of people out there, who grew up in the English language world and think that lmnop is one single letter (not 5 individual letters).  It's an amusing watch either way.

Also, twinkle star.  Why did i never notice?

Interesting!! he says "hAch" which is the Irish derivative.  The nuns apparently taught the soft and hard sounds together "h" as in huff and the hard "H" as in Atch (saying the letter)
He also says "zee" which is American phonetics.  Us colonials follow the mother tongue and say "zed" .  I have not heard the new version but have no doubt that somewhere it is real.

By the way, having done some travelling, I was interested that "Q" comes before "P" in England.  Mind you, Q comes before most things in England. 🤣

While my son was learning the alphabet, and the song, we had the first lambs of the year born - a pair of twins followed closely by a set of triplets.

We painted A and B on the twins, then C, D, and E on the triplets.

Unfortunately a fox took e on the first night. So my son modified the song to...

A, B, C, D. And little E is missing...

Then the next ewe had problems. Tiny F was born no problem but we had to assist with G. But it turned out their mom only one functional teat so G was hand-reared.

We switched to Star Trek characters the next year...