Mnemonics

FinsburyParkCarrots

Have you any inspired mnemonics for remembering spellings or info?

When I was eleven, I used the following mnemonic for spelling 'occasional' correctly:

Off
Cape
Canaveral
Are
Some
Interesting
Old
Newts
And
Lizards


Have you any mnemonics to share, or can you think of some witty mnemonics right here?

pearlmutt

there is "a rat" in separate.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Yes! In England we learn the mnemonic

Richard
Of
York
Gave
Battle
In
Vain

for remembering the order of colours in the spectrum by the first letter of each colour name (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet).

There's a good mnemonic for remembering how palindromes work:

Rats Live On No Evil Star

... as you see.

Nast

In dealing with hostage situations we use PACES:

Patience
Alert
Cooperative
Eye Contact
Stockhome Syndrome

FinsburyParkCarrots

Major
Inspiration
Karmically
Extrapolates

Meteor
centres
Cosmically
Revealing
Ethereal
Axis
Dreams!
Yippie!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Stegosaurus
Tramples
On
Nincompoop
Easily

Gyrating
Over
Some
Straggly
Aardvark
Rather
Deftly

FinsburyParkCarrots

I think I'll pass on doing one for Dave Abbruzzzesssesszsseesszsse....

FinsburyParkCarrots

Extralarge
Diplodocus
Dances
In
Ecstasy

Voicing
Eager
Delight
During
Evening
Rains

pearlmutt

there are two dd's in eddie and vedder which makes him a bedder, not better man.

this is just fun. i'm researching how to make my students bedder oops, better readers and writers righters -- write? right! now.

DopeBeastie

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Yes! In England we learn the mnemonic

Richard
Of
York
Gave
Battle
In
Vain

for remembering the order of colours in the spectrum by the first letter of each colour name (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet).

There's a good mnemonic for remembering how palindromes work:

Rats Live On No Evil Star

... as you see.

we just named the rainbow guy Roy G. Biv


we used


King
Henry
Died
Monday
Drinking
Chocolate
Milk

to remember the units of the metric system, too

Kilo
hecta
deca
meter
deci
centi
milli

Ali

Every
Good
Boy
Does
Fine........for the lines(Bottom to top)in a musical staff.;)

ISN

never learnt any mnemonics, but I heard about teh lazy fox.....but the whole thing reminds me of a great injustice that is happening right now here in Sydney.....a 70 year old woman (birthday 2moro) whom I met in hospital during my last nervous breakdown has been labelled senile, she's been diagnosed with senile dementia.....and to top it off, they're now giving her injections for schizophrenia.......she's a lovely lady, and a good friend of mine, whom I talk to on the phone during my anxiety attacks etc, and Torin always says 'bye bye Desda', but if she has senile dementia or schizophrenia, then I'm a brown-toed witch from Hertfordshire (originally a green-nailed hobbit from Herefordshire).....she knows what a cursor is, and she said something about a 'cursor' (how many septuagenarians - sp? - know the word 'cursor' or its function).....she is a millionairess, of British and Irish titled descent (delusions of grandeur!!!).......and they have taken off with her money.....and eke out a few dollars to her every now and then......of her own money!!!!......

I am helping her, and I found her a doctor in Sydney - Dr Mark Wallace - to get a second opinion, and a lawyer.....I phoned her about Mark Wallace, and for someone with dementia who didn't have a pen she did a pretty good mnemonic job of remembering his name......she connected him with Wallis Simpson, the woman who nabbed Edward VII or VII, and stole him away.....she remembered Dr Wallace's name by thinking of Wallis Simpson.....now if she has dementia, I'm a victim of pleurisy in the Channel Islands who went for a swim late at night with a machete and a bottle of Vodka

(wish me luck with this poor dame - cos she is a lady!!! - I might read this to her for her birthday 2moro on the phone - she's very interested in the internet)