Procrastinet

The Alphabet According to Max

filed under: Stuff to laugh at

So Max is a big fan of letters. He started out with numbers - he mastered 8 first (pronounced "aichh"), then 2 ("c'hoo"), then lost interest in the whole linear thing and bounced over to the alphabet (though apparently he has gone back to add 3 - "tee" - to the repetoire).

He's also mad about crayons. This is his crayon game: hold two crayons at a time, scrawling on a pad of paper (or the cabinets, or the walls, or us), then hand them to us for a while, during which we are expected to draw; then loudly demand them back - usually just when we've started really enjoying drawing whatever we're drawing.

Lately we've been combining these passions - we'll write a letter and have him identify it. He's branched out from his original "E" and "A" to have firm(ish) mastery of all the letters in his name, plus some spares. He has adopted a unique pronounciation for most of them, and for the ones he doesn't know he either laughs at us, looks at us suspiciously as if convinced we've made them up just to throw him, or he'll substitute another word (mostly "cat").

Here, then, is the Maxian alphabet:

A - ay
B - buhbuhbuh
C - cat!
D - dahdahdah
E - eeeh
F - efffffffffff! (the new favorite)
G - ... [blink, blink]
H - aishh
I - ... [blink, blink] ... cat
J - CAT!
K - cat?
L - ullll
M - hmmm
N - hnnn
O - oooo
P - ...heh heh
Q - oooo (until we point out the tail, then "kooo")
R - awl
S - heh heh
T - teeee! (lunging for the remote, as "tee" also means "tv")
U - cat
V - heh heh... cat
W - heh heh hee hee (crawls to puzzle stool and pulls out the "w")
X - ehchhs
Y - heh heh
Z - hee hee hee

Posted by rjt at November 12, 2004 12:39 PM