Subj : alphabet  was: SSN
To   : ED VANCE
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Tue May 07 2019 17:04:00

-=> Quoting Ed Vance to Joe Mackey on 05-02-19  22:25 <=-

 EV> And if I ever forget the Alphabet backwards I'm in REAL TROUBLE.
 EV> In the Navy I was typing things like:
 EV> NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.
 EV> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOGS BACK.

The standards...

 EV> I thought to type the Alphabet out and try to type it BACKWARDs.
 EV> After I got the first Z to A line finished, I could look at that line
 EV> to type it another time, then another time, etc.
 EV> I typed ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA many many times. OVER AND OVER.

That certainly gets all the letters of the alphabet... :)  We've done
the alphabet game on trips many times, finding each letter from A to Z
on signs and license plates and such... and then returning from Z to
A... Sometimes multiple times... it does help the car trip go a little
faster...  ;)  When I was learning the manual alphabet, I'd use the sign
for each letter as I found it... so it was practice both for the hand
and the mind.... :)

 EV> When I started trying to say the Alphabet backwards, I used to twitch.
 EV> My Left Little Finger moved when I said Z, the First Finger on My
 EV> Right Hand moved towards the left when I said Y, and so on.

I can certainly understand that... your brain had connected the two.. :)
 
 EV> I don't twitch any more when I say it to somebody, and I can say Z to
 EV> A in about 3.5 seconds on a good day.

Pretty good.... :)

 EV> In the past 57 Years I have been beat THREE TIMES by Girls in the 8th
 EV> Grade. 
 EV> There is always Someone or Something that keeps Ed humble.

Can't have you getting a swelled head... you might not be able to put
your shirts on any more then... ;)

ttyl      neb

.... I'm not completely stupid, some parts are missing.

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