I had a newer Elton John song lyric running through my brain for MONTHS with pauses. “We were crazy, wild and running, blind to the change to come.” Except that I couldn’t quite make them out, so I couldn’t figure out where the lyric came from.
All “n-word” jokes aside, the issue here is that you’re setting the kids up for the tricky task of knowing which words actually begin with an N.
Sure, knock-kneed knaves know, and knights with knitwear know, but kids lack the knack of knowing this knotty problem’s answer—which N-sounding words actually begin with an N?
Seconded!