A lot of other comments have explained, but if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge
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A lot of other comments have explained, but if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge