ThingOne often wakes up singing ZYX, a song from They Might Be Giants's kids CD Here Come the ABCs. It's basically the alphabet backwards, and I'm tickled to hear her sing it. I was at uni before I learned to recite the alphabet backwards.
I finally got it on video, though here she got the ending wrong, singing eBcba. Fool! Since then, every time she sings it she sings a B instead of a D because she now thinks she's really funny for doing it.
Infuriating! How am I supposed to sell her to a travelling freak show if she thinks it's funny to get it wrong?!
I *still* can't do the alphabet backwards, that must make me very backward indeed :)
ReplyDeleteYou have to teach her it's 'zed' not 'zee' though!
Can't do your alphabet backwards?? How do you get through the day?
ReplyDeleteI do try to shout "zed" over any of the TMBG songs at the right times, in a similar way Anne and I are well trained to distract Lily whenever a swearword comes on in a song we're listening too.
(Generally we avoid songs with potty talk in them, but occasionally we're confident it's either obscured or easily covered up.)