Re: Russian letter names was Re: Words about Conscripts
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 3, 2003, 11:12 |
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Tristan scripsit:
> Point of pedantry.... That's the American ABC song.
My mother, a bilingual from Germany, taught me to sing the German
alphabet to the same song ("Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" aka
"Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman"), thus:
/'a be 'tse de 'e Ef 'ge/
/'ha i 'jOt ke 'ElEmEno 'pe/
/'ku Er 'Es Unt 'te u 've/
/'vau 'Iks 'IpsIlOn 'tsEt/
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