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Abc-def-ghi




After stumbling upon the Latin Alphabet , which was written in chalk on the sidewalk, he mistakes it for a very long Word (" Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz "). With Marching Band -like accompaniment, he breaks into song, pronouncing the "word", as "Abb-kuh-deff-g(as in garment)ee-jeckel-muh-nopp-kwer-stoov-wix-iz." His brilliance as a bird, he thinks, will become known to all the World if he can ascertain the word's meaning.

A verse lists Big Bird's assumptions of what the word might mean:

:It might be a kind of an elephant
:Or a funny kind of kazoo
:Or a strange, exotic turtle
:That you'd never see in a zoo
:Or maybe a kind of a doggie
:Or particular shade of blue
:Or maybe a pretty flower
:Naah, not with a name like that, uh-uh!

The bridge illustrates the daunting task of trying to spell, let alone pronounce the word:
:It starts out like an A word, as anyone can see
:But somewhere in the middle, it gets awfully Q R (pronounced "kwer") to me.


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