Re: Russian letter names was Re: Words about Conscripts

Peter Clark wrote:

>        Interesting. The first three could be taken to mean "I know the letters,"
>except for the imperative. Could it have possibly changed over time? For
>instance, the English ABC song ends, "Now I know my ABC's/Next time won't you
>sing with me?"
>
Point of pedantry.... That's the American ABC song. One can tell, for
example, by the way it rhymes G, P, V, ABC and me with Z. It used to
have some currency here, but they've stopped it because it sounds awful
when you try to rhyme zed with things like G, P and V, and because you
tend to stumble over the elemenope bit. My brother originally thought
there was a letter 'men' until he was taught the new version (which
stops at Z and has a horribly different rhythm to it).

Tristan

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