Oddly enough, that’s the way I sing it to my kids sometimes. I’ve given them both versions. Is this really new? Other than preserving the stupid rhyme, it never really did make sense to me why one would jam “LMNOP” in that little space there when it scans perfectly fine and requires no shoehorning with the above method.
The melody to John Coltrane’s Giant Steps has 26 notes in it. Just sayin’.
Back in my day, it was called the set of numerals between eleven and thirteen.
I’ll admit I have no immediate plans to visit Pluto either.
Generations of Australian (and, I expect, British) schoolchildren have dealt with this problem by defiantly belting out “double-you ex wye ZED!!!” in a ‘yeah, we know it doesn’t rhyme - not OUR problem’ kind of a way
I wish I could find a link to anyone singing the ‘Australian Alphabet Song’ my sister-in-law taught me one time. Sung to a modified ‘Polly Wolly Doodle’ - ends the phrases on C,G,M then Q,U,Z. Works great.
THIS current monstrosity on the other hand, is only going to swell the already-huge ranks of otherwise-functional poetically-illiterate adults who couldn’t recognise a valid rhyme if it walked up and challenged them to a duel. It’s painful to listen to.
Do they wonder what happened to U and V?
Reminds me of my High School French classes. Doobleveh? Egrek?
It’s a Mickey Mouse planet.
I gave up on this whole idea of edjakation when they started messing with my favorite dinosaur.
I couldn’t handle the shock of hearing that the brontosaurus didn’t really exist…it was just an apatosaurus with the wrong name.
Correction: don’t you know it’s edjUMAKation??
(what do they teach them in these schools…)
Honestly, I always thought that was the stupidest part of the song.
I mean, if you rip off “Twinkle Twinkle,” and only later discover that it doesn’t have enough syllables, rushing through them like that is just lame. I can’t believe anyone likes that part of the song. I always thought, “Who is the idiot who chose this tune? It doesn’t even fit.”
I love this! I’m going to use it. I’m fucking sick of ‘Twinkle Twinkle’.
My daughter used to sing it “MMMOP”. She still learned to read okay .
My first grade teacher tried to teach us something like this in the mid-90s, for the same reason. It didn’t take.
I’m sure that I remember something–likely a cartoon–having a bad guy named Elimino Pio or something very similar, but Google is failing me. Any help?
Oops. Last line is obviously U V W, X Y Z.
Speaking of Sesame Street, that sure SOUNDS like Big Bird’s voice doing the new version.
++. I support this Pitting.
Trevor Noah’s response makes sense: “If my kid can’t figure out L-M-N-O-P I don’t want to make it easy for him. I just want to know so I can stop saving up for his college.”
Horrible, just horrible.
I don’t know who “They” is, but the song is a cultural thing that is passed down generation to generation. My mom taught me and my siblings the song when we were toddlers. My wife and I taught it to our children. So I’m sure that my kids will teach it my grandchildren, if they have any.
Making cultural shifts like this are difficult, and posting a youtube video of a change, doesn’t mean it will occur.