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Mnemonics to remember - what are yours?
nakymaton:
;D pm me your address if you really want cookies, Paul. :)
southendmd:
I'm glad you didn't ask me to recite them...
I'll take a cyber cookie as a reward! They're less fattening. Thanks, Mel
Ellemeno:
"In 14[hundred and]92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
My mother the joker came up with this one simply to ... what? I don't know, "In 14[hundred and]93, Columbus sailed the deep blue sea."
Ellemeno:
Here's one I actually use twice a year, when the clocks change:
Spring ahead, fall back.
hey Euro-Brokies, I'd love to hear some more non-English ones.
serious crayons:
This one won't be helpful specifically, but might be useful in a more general way. The password on my hotmail account is a jumble of random letters and numbers. Used to be, if I wanted to access my email from another computer, I had to carry it around on a little scrap of paper in my my purse.
Then a friend suggested a mnemonic device based on i) the phone prefix of a community near me, 2) a little sentence that is nonsensical but memorable, incorporates the names of a couple of friends and uses the word "zeitgeist," 3) the last two digits of a significant year. Sounds confusing, maybe, but somehow it all makes just enough sense to stand out in my mind. I never forget my password anymore.
And this isn't exactly a mnemonic device, but does anybody remember those old cartoons that featured a ball that bounced along the words to a song? The lyrics to one song went, "M-i-S ... S-I-S ... S-I-P-P-I -- it used to be so hard to spell, it used to make me cry." Now, whenever I want to spell Mississippi, that song goes through my head.
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