"Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" is a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street. A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... Big Bird finds Ernie in a game of Journey to Ernie. ... From A Celebration of Me, Grover, showing much of the main cast of Sesame Street. ...

After stumbling upon the Latin alphabet, which was written in chalk on the sidewalk, he mistakes it for a very long word. With marching band-like accompaniment, he breaks into song, pronouncing the "word", /æbkəˈdɛfgɪʤəklmn̩ˈɔpkɚˈstuvwɪksɪz/. His brilliance as a bird, he thinks, will become known to all the world if he can ascertain the word's meaning. The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together. ... The Wisconsin Band, known for its unique stop at the top high step, performs at the HHH Metrodome during a football game against arch-rival Minnesota. ... The World in plate carrée projection The World In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is age or life of man. Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: the World. ...

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 strange, exotic turtle

You 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 humor comes from the irony that while Big Bird can read the word he does not seem to know what an alphabet is, as well as the fact that he is saying the whole alphabet as one word. This kind of humor is generally not intended to be noticed by children but instead is meant for adults so they can enjoy the show as well, and are more inclined to watch it with their children. This is a typical tactic of Sesame Street. Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of animals, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea. ... Two examples of the kazoo A metal kazoo The kazoo is a simple musical instrument (membranophone) that adds tonal qualities when the player hums into it. ... Families See text Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonia, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilagenous shell developed from their ribs. ... The National Zoo in Washington, D.C.. A zoological garden, or zoo for short, is a place where wild animals are encaged in an artificial environment and exhibited to the public. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The dog is a canine mammal of the Order Carnivora and it has been argued it has been domesticated for between 12,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent genetic evidence. ... For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation) Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420–490 nanometers) of the three additive primary colors. ... Wildflowers Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ... Adolf Hitler: layered visual irony? Irony is a form of expression in which an implicit meaning is concealed or contradicted by the explicit meaning of the expression. ...

"Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" is one of many similar songs about the Latin alphabet, as well as songs that set the alphabet to music and use the same title or sometimes simply shortened to abc's. Their main purpose is generally didactic. Didactic refers to literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative. ...

See also

• The Alphabet song

trujfyj The alphabet song is a popular tool used to help teach children the Latin alphabet, commonly known by children as the A-B-Cs. ...