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Mnemonics to remember - what are yours?
Ellemeno:
Hi Buds,
As you probably know, a mnemonic is a little trick that helps you remember something. Reading this post of Scott's, gave me the idea for this thread.
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=5777.msg113371#msg113371
What mnemonics have you learned and used? Have you even invented one that helps you?
Here's one of mine to start off with. I'm a pretty good speller, but I used to have trouble remembering 'desert' and 'dessert', which one is which. Then one day the problem was solved, when a friend taught me this trick, "Which one do you want more of?" Dessert, of course, the one with TWO S's.
southendmd:
Great idea, Elle.
I had to learn lots of mnemonics in gross anatomy class. That was a very long time ago. I remember many of the mnemonics, but not what they go to: my favorite example is "a beautiful little bride looks distressed if minus undies" where each word refers to a structure in the wrist. I think the "undies" refers to the ulnar artery.
This was for the cranial nerves: "oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel a Grecian vase, ah, heavenly". As you can imagine, there were several naughty versions of this one.
Here's a spelling one: to spell "separate", remember there's "a rat" in there.
Remember Johnny Mnemonic?
Ellemeno:
Paul, I must say, I think I would need mnemonics to remember those unnatural little mnemonic sentences. :) That one for 'separate' is handy, that is a very commonly mis-spelled word.
Here's one I think most Americans know:
HOMES - for the Great Lakes
H - Huron
O - Ontario
M - Michigan
E - Erie
S - Superior
southendmd:
Here's a good one for the mechanically challenged:
Lefty=Loosie
Righty=Tightie
southendmd:
Anyone remember the Hoagie Carmichael tune for the months?
30 days have September, April, June and November.
All the rest have 31.
Except quite contrary, February, has 28, most of the time.
But in leap years, 29.
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