Another “now I know my ABCs” songstress here.
I do fine with JKLMNO, but there is some part of my brain that stubbornly insists on believing that G comes after H and I despite all evidence to the contrary, unless I sing it.
I’m relieved to find I’m not alone in this.
C’mon, everybody now!
“We the People, in order to form a more per-fect un-ion…”
“es-tablish justice, ensure domestic tranquilliteeeee…”
Yeah, I’ve got to sing that one too. And the alphabet. SO good to know I’m not alone! 
I don’t have to sing the alphabet song. I can also do it backwards still without singing.
Well, I’m not the one that was asked…but it helps me spell Chicago.
Chicken in the car and the car won’t go.
Yeah, yeah, and I spell New Jersey with “Never will Jews run several years apart.”
Um, so how do you folks usually misspell “Chicago”? (Sure, you could misspell it as “Mkjhkdhfwe,” but I can’t imagine that misspelling it would be so common as to require a mnemonic that so many people seem to know.)
Thank you Scarlett67, I say it just like you but when I got to the “thirty-one” part the next line would be “'cept February” and that was it. I knew something was missing, but didn’t realize how much. As for the trick, my step-dad actually used that but I had already gotten in the habit of using my not-quite-a-rhyme and stuck with that instead.
BiblioCat and Poly, you two crack me up!
I used to have to sing the alphabet, but after a year and a half working in a bookstore, I am the Queen of the Alphabet.
But I got all of y’all beat with the mneumonic songs: I can sing the presidents. We had to sing the names of the presidents to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy back in seventh grade, and it has stayed with me. It’s a great party trick. (Really. Some friends and I sang it at a party in high school, to the startlement of the other guests.) So if you need to know who the fifteenth president, I’m your woman! I can sing: Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe Adams Jackson Van Buren Harrison Tyler Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan.
Unfortunately, I can only sing it up to Bush Sr., cause he was the president when I was in seventh grade. And his name ended the verse. Clinton and Bush start a new verse, which sounds unwieldy.
Guess I’m just that bad of a speller that I need the little song. 
You should hear the inside of my head when I spell beautiful!
Da feh, I can name all the presidents and their terms of office, in order, and I don’t gotta sing no silly song to do it. So neener. 
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest eat peanut butter,
Except my grandma’
Who drives a red Buick.
The local cops have people recite the alphabet as a sobriety test. They say that fully 90% of the people they put through the test sing the Alphabet Song. This is regarded as an indication of intoxication.
We are all in trouble.
I sing the alphabet song, and I’m damn proud of it! I also (occasionally) sing the 1 to 12 Sesame Street song, though thats more joking, because I can count to 12 without it!
One two three four FIVE
Six seven eight nine TEN
eleven TWELVE!
Hmm…I half-sing and half recite. I can say it without singing, but I still say “elemeno” and the pacing of the recitation is exactly like the song (pauses after G and S, for example.)
I can only do the Greek alphabet while singing, though.
I certainly remember, eve, “elemenoh” being one letter.
I dropped the song, though not the drill, early on. I wasn’t thrilled with the tune, it sounded contrived. I still know it, of course. (plays it over in my mind. yuck.)
Not being able to keep the alphabet straight was one of the (stupid) reasons I decided not to go to law school. How early on our lives are formed!
the important question about the alphabet song… what comes after Z?
for me, it was always:
W, X, Y and Z
Now I know my ABC’s
Next time, won’t you sing with me?
When I was teaching English in Japan, I found that the audiotapes the Ministry of Education approved changed the spacing to eliminate the ellemenopee problem, adding a few bars at the end.
And it’s impossible to express in writing. Nevermind. :rolleyes:
I don’t have to sing the alphabet, but I do recite pieces of it, though I don’t have to go through the entire thing.
Same for me.
I’m still trying to figure out why you have to recite the Preamble in order to know how many days a month has. 
Over here x ‘axe’ and z ‘zed’ sorta rhyme…it may be streched a little but it’s True!
Yes, the chinese language has characters, not alphabets. Thank heavens, coz else everytime we try and recite the ‘alphabet’, it’d be like reciting all the words in the dictionary. You know that, but we have phonetics too. Ok, i’m pretty sure there won’t be, but…
does anyone here remember the pinyin song? ‘bo po mo fo, de te ne le…’
Btw, I’m not from around your region, but i heard that Chicago was supposed to be pronounced as chi-go-go. Same as Arkansas was supposed to be pronounced ar-ken-saw, No? Someone correct me.
And lastly, I count my knuckles too…seems like the fastest way to me… 
soto
Arkansas is infact Ar-ken-saw, Chicago is pronounced Shi("i"as in sit)-kaw-go.