In a certain Litvish school, kindergarten children are taught the alef bais in Yiddish. For each letter, they have pictures of things that begin with the letter. The problem is that no Yiddish word begins with vais, so they use a picture of a lulav, which at least ends in vais. As someone pointed out, they phase out Yiddish after a few years, after which I suspect most boys forget it (unless they have Yiddish speaking relatives).
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