The Roman alphabet is conspiring against Amy

[pne]

This morning, as we were eating breakfast, Amy looked at the carton of milk on the table and said, "There's an aitch on it!"

And indeed, there was: a big H in the background, taking up about half of one side, presumably because it was UHT milk (known colloquially as "H-Milch" in Germany).

So we started looking for some more letters. "Do you see an eff?" "What's that next to the em?" etc.

Then I told her that the letter next to the M in "Milch" (written in a sans-serif font) was a "small eye. Look—it's got a dot on top. Do you see the dot? Small i's have dots on them."

And Amy said, "And next to it is a big eye!"

Nice try—unfortunately, not this time. "No, that's a small ell. But you're right: a big eye looks like that, too. Small ells and big eyes often look the same."

Comments

[conuly]

Ana has that problem too. She's finally given in and just started asking me what it is, but it was a lot of guessing for a while.

Milk is H

[meeps-hitchie.livejournal.com]

Funny what a capital H can be used for in different languages: Now in Japanese ... Oh, but that's not for little kids. So, ... H like Hydrogen ... And hey, thanks for the welcome back note from last time.