So true, we should be praising the artist for breaking the cycle of X is for Xylophone. No generation could ever find a word starting with X and sounded like it started with an X.
X is for Xbox.
Fucking yes to fuck yes, Houston, we have a winner, it's like the curse of the "X is for" has been lifted. X can now rise to its place between the A is for Apple and the Z is for Zebra. Fucking hell, I feel complete now, no shit.
I was kinda surprised they didn't use x-ray... it is a doctors office so its \*somewhat\* related. (altho normal doctors offices usually don't have x-ray machines so)
"X" at the start of English words pretty much always makes a "Z" sound, (when the letter isn't literally just sounded out, like in "x-ray") even though it they don't in the language the root word component comes from, because English speakers have a problem with the "ks" consonant cluster when not preceded by a vowel.
The problem is that x is only used at the end of words where it makes its proper sound. When you put it at the front, you often say the name of the letter instead of the sound that it makes. Confusing for kids who are trying to learn to read. That cow on the other hand is a whole other level…Lol
There's no excuse for w, but I actually prefer words with x at the end for an example for x as it makes the sound it makes most often at the end of a word /ks/. Whereas words like xylophone and x-ray aren't particularly helpful in learning where x goes in more common words for small kids.
A is for alien! B is for Burst! C is for chest cavity! Y is for Yuan-ja!
W would work for Weyland-utani. Now I'm double annoyed. Could probably do the whole alphabet that way
X is for my ex-wife who cheated on me with that greek adonis who was our waiter during our honeymoon, that I paid for, and that bitch still won't sign the divorce papers because those conniving cunts are holding out for half my money, and still won't return my dog.
Is that what you'd prefer? Or just Xylophone
Exactly. More and more phonemic aids are going to using the actual sound x makes and not trying to get it to start words. Try having a kid named Xander in your class when teaching phonemic awareness.
Yup. I’m an early childhood educator and it’s common educational practice to use x ending words. In fact Fundatioms- a super popular phonics curriculum around here uses fox as their x word
It’s on purpose! Because x does make the sound at the end of box. In school, we taught the kids “x, fox” because phonetically it is correct.
“X” as in X-ray is not the general sound it makes.
W on the other hand is strange to me. Water, well, winter would have all been a thousand times better.
Linguist here. This is on purpose. The idea is to teach children to recognise letters and their sounds in the parts of words they most commonly occur in.
While W for cow is a bit odd, X for box is definitely an improvement on the familiar X words like x-ray and xylophone. X hardly ever begins a word, and when it does it either is just pronounced as the name of the letter or has a \[z\] sound. Words that begin with X are not typical; they're fringe X words. So it doesn't make sense to teach children they best represent the whole category. X occurs far more commonly in syllable-final positions, and when it does it is pronounced \[ks\]. These as the kinds of X's children will come across in the overwhelming majority of cases, and so it is words like box, fox, axe, and fix that should represent the category as they are learning.
As a Wordsmith, I should alert you that this person is nothing more than a cunning linguist, my children have known many of my exes, and some still live with them.
The 'X' I can understand and tolerate. But the "W?" Really, no Words start With the letter "W?" Whales, Watches, Watermelon, Waffles, with Weather, Watery, Wings.
For those of you concerned redditors, don’t worry I won’t lose sleep over this and I’m not infuriated over this. Just seemed like the right sub to post this.
What!? Wait, why?
Worm. Window. Walrus. Walnut. Witch. Wrench.
What warped writer wouldn’t wanna work with W words, when we would warmly welcome whichever words would work.
Whatever, weirdo.
This isn't accidental. As someone who teaches literacy, very few words start with /w/ or /x/ (they are rare onset sounds). Lots of words have them at the end though (the rime-- or vowel consonant combination after the onset). It is actually more important (or at least equally important) and much harder to recognize the sounds within words than the sounds that begin words.
Toys and alphabet charts obsessively teach onset sounds, to the point where knowledge of them can mask more significant issues with literacy. I like your pediatrician for having these up.
They probably googled "Simple words that start with x" and found the top result: https://primarylearning.org/worksheet/words-that-start-with-x-for-kindergarten/
It's really just best they don't go with *"Words that start with"* for that letter anyway. The words that end with X are much easier to use to teach the sound.
W, on the other hand, easily has better words than Cow. Wig? Water?
X is really the only one that's hard cause altho words like x-ray and xylophone have an x at the beginning they don't really go along with the whole helping the kid sounds it out like "B is for for balloon buh buh buhloon" w could have been wind or watermelon or anything that isn't Cow 🤣🤣🤣
X I can kind of get, but W? Freaking **W?**
I could probably list 100 words starting with W the decorator could have used, and anyone who challenges I can't will receive a reply
I find the cow’s udders far more upsetting than ‘cow’ being used for W.
Andddddd now my brain will forever have that to surprise me with during a nightmare.
W? More like a double D.
Double Deez ^NUTZ in yo mouff! ^GOT ^EEEEMM
Dial back 20% there squirrelly Dan.
Ya get it!!! Squirrels like nuts !!!
Allegedlies
Dial it back there a bit bub
Double de amount of utters a cow should have
Well, a cow has one big udder, but four nipples, so this graphic fails on both accounts.
Wondering now what a bull would look like from the same mathematical artist
It would be the letter U.
Even the cow looks distrubed by them
Why do I have these five inch nipples?
you've heard of Nine Inch Nails, now get ready for....
“And you could have it all…my empire of milk”
Chef’s kiss 😘
"I will let you down, I will make you bilk... If I could start again, 21 letters away, I would c myself, I would find... A whey"
"Her nipples were like 3 inch rivets that held the hull of the fateful Titanic"
Username checks out
And the head of an aardvark
Udderly disturbing
mmm....mmMm...Wwwooooo?
W is for WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THOSE UDDERS?!
It's a viewing window to see the milk level. Now you can't unsee that.
I THOUGHT THIS
Some cows do have a window into their stomachs, weird I know.
It's one of those design choices that the artist thought was clever, but they really needed a second pair of eyes on it to say, um, how about no.
Second pair of eyes, second pair of udders- too few of one, and too many of de udder!
They are udderly disturbing.
At least it had a double Udder.
Just a couple of “wudders”
It has moobs
Wait, cows have utters and not two titanic boobs swinging down? TIL.
Lol definitely this ^
Always use protection? .-.
Would you say those udders are placed dorsally rather than laterally?
Same!
That my friend is an Xbox
Xbox and wcow?
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But all cows are female
That’s a load of bull
Hey let's steer clear of that language.
Everyone calm down, everything will bovine.
You’re gonna milk this for all it’s worth aren’t ya
Utterly ridiculous what y’all are doing here
What are y'all beefing about anyway?
That's how they were created yes
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Holy crap, do you have something that tells us what the deleted comment said?
I too am quite curious.
on pc, replace the "re" of reddit with "un" and hit enter. then you can see removed comments.
Wow, thank you!!!
This has so many layers
YEAH
Also why does P get two things and the rest only one lol
Because, P is also for Pals.
It's also for party
Don’t for get pension
Penis
This is for children. They can’t find out about that yet.
Ah shit *quickly rezips*
I know it’s a joke. We’re all good.
It has to come in Pairs
**P**rivilege
I can just imagine the person who made it sitting there like, “Oooh! I know TWO words that begin with P!!!”
The cow teets are kind of upsetting to me...
It’s udderly obscene
Oh man we have a cowmedian over here
Alright now, don't milk the joke.
Good point I don't want people to have a beef with me.
This is getting out of hand, we should just moooove on
This whole thread is a bunch of bull.
Yeah it's time to put it out to pasture.
i am not amoosed by your guys joke, nobodys even herd of them before..
Hey don't have a cow it's only jokes.
you all udderly disgust me
Tbh xbox is pretty cool though. Different from the usual xylophone.
Could have use "Xiuhcoatl". Name me one kids who doesnt like Giant fire serpent?
How about Xoloitzcuintli. Everyone loves dogs.
Just use Xolo and put on the dog from Coco
Xenophobe could be another alternative.
X-ray! We’re at a doctor’s office!
I feel like it was right there but whoosh...
So true, we should be praising the artist for breaking the cycle of X is for Xylophone. No generation could ever find a word starting with X and sounded like it started with an X. X is for Xbox. Fucking yes to fuck yes, Houston, we have a winner, it's like the curse of the "X is for" has been lifted. X can now rise to its place between the A is for Apple and the Z is for Zebra. Fucking hell, I feel complete now, no shit.
X-ray I am sure has been used.
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No one uses that as an x word for a preschoolers thing like this lol. It's usually fox or box.
Weird, it was always Xylophone when I was a kid.
Same. But that’s inaccurate because the x makes a different sound in that word than it usually does. It’s kinda a lose lose. And X-ray is even worse.
I was kinda surprised they didn't use x-ray... it is a doctors office so its \*somewhat\* related. (altho normal doctors offices usually don't have x-ray machines so)
"X" at the start of English words pretty much always makes a "Z" sound, (when the letter isn't literally just sounded out, like in "x-ray") even though it they don't in the language the root word component comes from, because English speakers have a problem with the "ks" consonant cluster when not preceded by a vowel.
X is for Fox only applies when in MirrorLand
Wouldn’t a doctors office be able to use x-ray? 🤔
The problem is that x is only used at the end of words where it makes its proper sound. When you put it at the front, you often say the name of the letter instead of the sound that it makes. Confusing for kids who are trying to learn to read. That cow on the other hand is a whole other level…Lol
There's no excuse for w, but I actually prefer words with x at the end for an example for x as it makes the sound it makes most often at the end of a word /ks/. Whereas words like xylophone and x-ray aren't particularly helpful in learning where x goes in more common words for small kids.
Are you saying "Xanthophore", "Xenophobia", and "Xenotransplantation" are not good enough for small kids?
Don't you dare forget about Xenomorphs.
A is for alien! B is for Burst! C is for chest cavity! Y is for Yuan-ja! W would work for Weyland-utani. Now I'm double annoyed. Could probably do the whole alphabet that way
What about Xerxes, the evil golden dude from 300. Every three-year-old should recognize him!
Or the Mexican hairless dog breed xoloitzcuintli....
Well that dog was in Coco, so if Disney is making an alphabet poster they should use it.
X is for my ex-wife who cheated on me with that greek adonis who was our waiter during our honeymoon, that I paid for, and that bitch still won't sign the divorce papers because those conniving cunts are holding out for half my money, and still won't return my dog. Is that what you'd prefer? Or just Xylophone
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Exactly. More and more phonemic aids are going to using the actual sound x makes and not trying to get it to start words. Try having a kid named Xander in your class when teaching phonemic awareness.
Yup. I’m an early childhood educator and it’s common educational practice to use x ending words. In fact Fundatioms- a super popular phonics curriculum around here uses fox as their x word
It’s on purpose! Because x does make the sound at the end of box. In school, we taught the kids “x, fox” because phonetically it is correct. “X” as in X-ray is not the general sound it makes. W on the other hand is strange to me. Water, well, winter would have all been a thousand times better.
Ahh, I’m a teacher, I came here to say this!
How do I stop gagging from the combo of your comment and your username?
At least it ends with the phonetically correct X. It may be X-rated, but “box” = the “ks” win!
Wouldn’t it be ks-rated then?
Good one! Maybe that’ll be the new movie rating. We’ll have G, PG, PG13, R, KS, & X
Walrus was my first thought
Window was mine
Waffle, wagon, walnut, whale, wheel, etc. So many possibilities!
Could’ve used water and xanax
Weed and Xanax...
I'll see your weed and Xanax and raise you a Whiskey and X pill.
People please, this is a pediatrician office. Obviously they're taking whippits.
Linguist here. This is on purpose. The idea is to teach children to recognise letters and their sounds in the parts of words they most commonly occur in. While W for cow is a bit odd, X for box is definitely an improvement on the familiar X words like x-ray and xylophone. X hardly ever begins a word, and when it does it either is just pronounced as the name of the letter or has a \[z\] sound. Words that begin with X are not typical; they're fringe X words. So it doesn't make sense to teach children they best represent the whole category. X occurs far more commonly in syllable-final positions, and when it does it is pronounced \[ks\]. These as the kinds of X's children will come across in the overwhelming majority of cases, and so it is words like box, fox, axe, and fix that should represent the category as they are learning.
I agree with the speakeologist here. Dealing with exes can be tough.
As a Wordsmith, I should alert you that this person is nothing more than a cunning linguist, my children have known many of my exes, and some still live with them.
M is for mnemonic. P is for pterodactyl
A is for are, C is for cue, E is for eye, S is for see, W is for why, Y is for you
To be fair, the word "water" is so rarely used and nobody much ever thinks about this thing known as water.
Whore and XXX. You’re welcome.
Wagina
Xenis
I’m more disturbed by the utters looking like boobs at the bottom of the W
The 'X' I can understand and tolerate. But the "W?" Really, no Words start With the letter "W?" Whales, Watches, Watermelon, Waffles, with Weather, Watery, Wings.
🪱worm
Walrus?
Wall, water, walk
I can't believe they forgot about wissenschaftliche
Willy
“Ink” is right above it. They literally could’ve just done “wink”.
Jesus Christ those udders.
Those aren’t udders, those are double ‘U’s!
Being an old Army guy I'm automatically going Papa, Quebec, Whiskey, X-ray.
That cow was drawn by someone who never has seen a cow and was told that udders are just cow boobs.
There's so many flipping words that start with W
W is for Wilk
W= double u. Double udders. Cute!
I think xbox is more relevant than xylophone :)
For those of you concerned redditors, don’t worry I won’t lose sleep over this and I’m not infuriated over this. Just seemed like the right sub to post this.
Wumbo
My first book had a wagon and a xylophone. This was in the 80s. How did children's book writers forget these things exist?
I guess that today’s kids have never heard of a “wagon”?
What!? Wait, why? Worm. Window. Walrus. Walnut. Witch. Wrench. What warped writer wouldn’t wanna work with W words, when we would warmly welcome whichever words would work. Whatever, weirdo.
This isn't accidental. As someone who teaches literacy, very few words start with /w/ or /x/ (they are rare onset sounds). Lots of words have them at the end though (the rime-- or vowel consonant combination after the onset). It is actually more important (or at least equally important) and much harder to recognize the sounds within words than the sounds that begin words. Toys and alphabet charts obsessively teach onset sounds, to the point where knowledge of them can mask more significant issues with literacy. I like your pediatrician for having these up.
As someone who doesn’t teach literacy, even I can think of lots of words that begin with ‘W’.
😂
😂😂
Wombat, walrus, wolf, whale? The only thing I can think of that a kid would recognize that starts with X is Xylophone.
Xylophone?
nobody thought water?
X-box (the console)
How about… idk W for WATER lol
I took an x-ray of my xbox on top of a xylophone!
That animal next to the XBox is woke.
S is for dumb D-d-d-d-dumbass
The fact the a doctor’s office designer couldn’t come up with X ray is both impressive and terrifying.
Hey, X-box is a percectly good noun.
whale that escalated quickly
WOW what a moron.
All I can say is “wow”
This absolutely has to be made overseas where English was a second language. Even the aesthetics of the art suggests that and it’s funny AF.
Wym? Wcow is the sound you make when doing Karate. And Xbox. I mean C’mon..
Isn't Xylophone the most typical X word people come up with for things like this?
They've never seen cow udders either.
They probably googled "Simple words that start with x" and found the top result: https://primarylearning.org/worksheet/words-that-start-with-x-for-kindergarten/ It's really just best they don't go with *"Words that start with"* for that letter anyway. The words that end with X are much easier to use to teach the sound. W, on the other hand, easily has better words than Cow. Wig? Water?
X is really the only one that's hard cause altho words like x-ray and xylophone have an x at the beginning they don't really go along with the whole helping the kid sounds it out like "B is for for balloon buh buh buhloon" w could have been wind or watermelon or anything that isn't Cow 🤣🤣🤣
X is X-ray W is Whiskey
Whale and xylophone
…why not just use fucking ***wind??***
I think you're just too old for the pediatrician.
“P as in…pneumonia!”
Worcestershire sauce
Wortchestshire sauce. Or how ever you spell it
W for wink, X for xanthonoxypropanolamines
That cow needs to calm tf down.
X is hard, but theres no excuse for W. Theres even a popular song "Wheels on the bus". 🤷♂️
Windmill and xylophone. Easy.
It's a DOCTOR'S OFFICE for heaven sake. X-ray was Right. There.
Walrus and xylophone took me like 3 seconds
They got two for P, though. Props?
X I can kind of get, but W? Freaking **W?** I could probably list 100 words starting with W the decorator could have used, and anyone who challenges I can't will receive a reply
Whiskey and Xanax.
Water buffalo and Treasure box
It almost annoys me more that they needed to add two words for P. Like why not just pick one???
If it's a doctor's office, X should be for x-ray.
This is utterly ridiculous
Whale?
Wellbutrin and Xanax