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1. The ABC Song

lower case abc

UPPER CASE ABC IN CAPITAL LETTERS

 

2. The Boat Song

Sail in my boat

Like a bird on the wing,

On then, the sailors cry.

Carry us over the sea as we sing

Under the sunset sky

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3. Old English spellings

Hugh's naughty daughter

caught a rough tough cough,

so Hugh thought he ought to have brought her

some dough, eight weights in a sleigh,

and a bright light for the night,

but he was taught not to laugh

for he caught her cough too.

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5. French spellings.

Louis took his fiancee

to the theatre and the ballet and a cabaret and a cafe

and a restaurant at a chalet,

and she lounged by the bureau

eating eclairs and meringues

and drinking champagne and cognac.


And in French the vowel letters
A E I O U are pronounced as in
pate ballet police depot tabu

4. The Elephant Sing-Song


Down by the green trees

I saw the elephants.

In and out and up and down and around and about

went the elephants

all among the green trees.

Here and there and back again,

Through and where and how and when,

Why and which and was and who,

With if and will and does not too.

No one knows quite what elephants want to do.

What they would and could and should.

Let's go!

Some say yes, but others said no,

As many more elephants come just so.

Because this is what lots of them like, you know.

And now, look out, for off they go.


When you can read all this song,
you can read almost half the words in almost anything.


6. Spellings from the Greek

PH PS PN
for elephant, psychology, pneumonia

CH for chemist and architect

8. The Parlour song

When father papered the parlour

He plastered his hair full of glue

It poured down round the boys

All the girls heard their noise

Through the room and outside the house too






 



7. Latin spellings

Recollections of Victoria station.

Imperial, enormous,

Incomparable and glorious,

Distinctive premonition

of an indelible exhibition

9. I know where I'm going

I know where I'm going

And I'm taking a book with me

I am going to read it

And no -one's going to stop me.