But if we do that, we'll need a new alphabet song!

(also, since letters [sorta] contain their respective sounds, I suggest "wub")

Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅

We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane