Letters everywhere...

I've always loved letters and alphabets, numbers, fonts... to the point ot being mesmerized by their shapes and forms instead of concentrating on how they were to be used during Algebra class (sorry, Mrs. ??). Lately I've noticed a little trend of flash cards and alphabets, mainly for kids' room decor, but also for grownups as well, around the web. On our trip home last week we spotted some fun typography from the last century which I'll have to post at some point; notably in public school signage that must have all been created around the same time, as they all emply a standard cut metal (aluminum likely) Futura all cap. Yesterday here in Nashville I spotted the same on a public school wall over off Chestnut. A great look. Anyhow, here are a few fun letter-related links. I'd love to try my hand at creating some, in many different languages.
Above images from Anthropologie.

Alphabet cards via Kitty Genius

Fonty gift wrap via Bugs and Fishes

Petit Collage's awesome kids' alphabet

Cool mod alphabet poster from Bless Design

More:

Another assortment

from awesome Jenn Ski


and the lovely Lotta Bruhn!

See others via Bodie and Fou, and Freshly Blended, and blackwhitebliss. And this one.

Alfabeto=awesome.

And these lovelies from etsy.

Forvo.

Okay, maybe an overstatement. But you have to check this out:
Forvo.com

I could spend HOURS here...it all started by looking up how to say
Sláinte

"Sláinte" means "health" in Irish and pronunciation depends on your dialect.
in the South and West you'd say "slawnt-yeh" or "slant-yeh", in the North it's "slain-cheh", with the "ay" much broader than in the English "slain".

But one could look up any word and any language to get a glimpse of how they sound. Audible glimpse, that is. Of course, it might not be interesting to you, especially if you were like those people in my high school Spanish classes who couldn't be bothered to even try to pronounce anything correctly, just getting by with the very least of efforts, in flat American accents. Kinda like how I was in algebra.

So, Sláinte! And enjoy hearing something you've never heard in your life!

BBC English.

This has had me enthralled for an hour...