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I have some bad news — a core part of your childhood is about to be destroyed and it's unfortunately for the better.
We all know our ABCs right? If you've forgotten, here are the lyrics:
A B C D E F G H I J K ELLAMENOPEE Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
Pretty simple stuff. We all grew up with the sing-song way of learning the alphabet.
Watch: Thank you to teachers everywhere. Post continues below.
I remember in Kindergarten we would all stand up and our teacher would play a game (well, it was a game to her, it was life or death for five-year-old me) where we had to say the alphabet perfectly with each student saying one letter at a time. If you got your letter wrong, you had to sit down.
It started fairly well, the kids who got to say A B C D would always nail it. The E F G H I J K's barely scraped through... and then you saw it... the absolute fear in the eyes of the L M N O P kids. They knew they wouldn't survive... and they didn't. RIP.
We all started dropping like flies, never making it to the safe lands of the Q R S let alone the T U V W X Y Z.
Luckily for the younger generation (who always get the good things), the alphabet song has changed and they will never get stuck saying our collective favourite letter — ELLAMENOPEE.