My son spoke early - at 6mths. He knew his alphabets at 9-10 mths. At the time, we had a felt wall-poster chicken with 26 pockets for each of the alphabets. His nanny (DH and I were working so much then, we had no idea that having a talking baby was special or different) showed me he knew how to put each letter back if you called it out. He was sight reading shortly after (could read out any page of Richard Scarry's Mother Goose, so it had to be by sight!). I think he learnt to put the letters together after 2 years old.

This is terrible - it took two nursery teachers to convince me that he was unusual at age 4, and that's when I started reading up about GT issues.