Why do we have two ways to pronounce the alphabet...?
So, for example:
A- "ay" ; a- "ah"
B- "bee" ; b- "buh"
C- "cee" ; c- "cuh" and so on...
When we learn the alphabet at school in UK we learn the lower case alphabet first but when foreign students learn English they are taught the upper case alphabet (capitals).
Why do we have two ways to pronounce the alphabet?
Do other languages have the same or not because when I learned foreign languages at school we were only taught one way to pronounce each letter... i think it might just be your school in the UK when you learned the lower case firt because i learnt upper case and in all the alphabet sings and on TV it is in upper case. we are taught the lower case for spelling words so that it is easier to learn how to say the words, i think. because quite often the sounds in words are nothing like the upper case letter sounds. Writing Cursive Italic Calligraphy : Writing Lower Case G-L in Calligraphy
It definately wasn't just my school- my mum remembers being taught the same way and my neice has now learnt the lower case alphabet but hasn't learned the 'alphabet song' pronunciation.
I teach ESL and we teach the A
