Collection: Mnemonic aids
Submitted by 1922 on Mon, 02/21/2005 - 12:53
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- Trenne niemals S und T, denn das tut den beiden weh. --> Never divide S and T because it hurts them. (I know it doesn't sound very well in English.)
- Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten. (My Father explains me each sunday our nine planets.// Take the initials of the german words and you get the initials of the nine planets. Not up-to-date!)
- My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets (9 Planets) (s. by Wezzo)
- Many Vultures Eat Many Juicy Steaks Using New Plates (For the planets, in order closest to furthest from the sun) (s. by Wezzo)
- Bijou caillou chou genou hibou joujou pou (French aid to remember the words in -ou that take an...(thinking)... -x instead of an -s in the plural form.)
- HOMES: initials of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) (s. by P Pogo)
- Roy G. Biv: initials of colors of the rainbow in order (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) (s. by P Pogo)
- Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: a phrase whose first letters represent lines in the treble clef (E, G, B, D, F) (s. by P Pogo)
- "In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." - rhyme to remember historical date. (s. by P Pogo)
- "I before E except after C" - a rhyme to help remember an English spelling rule (made famous in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) (s. by P Pogo)
- Liquor before beer, never fear. Beer before liquor, never sicker. (s. by P Pogo)
- Sieben fünf drei sprang Rom aus dem Ei. (Seven Five Three leapt Rome out of its egg// To remember the foundation year of Rome.)
- In Belgium: "Wijn na bier, 't is plezier Bier na wijn 't is venijn"... which can be translated as drinking beer after wine is pleasurable, drinking wine after beer is venomous (makes you sick) (s. by cramoukji)
- About cell division: To make it easy to remember the difference between myosis (sexual cell division) and mitosis (non-sexual cell divison) because, as everyone knows, my toesies are not sexy. (s. by cramoukji)
- The Royal Houses of Britain: "No place like yours to study history well."
- Normans, Plantagenets, Lancaster, York, Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, Windsor. (by icubaji)
- "Thirty days hath September/April, June and November." Followed sometimes by "All the rest have thirty-one except February" (by icubaji)
- Non-verbal aid is to use your knuckles on your hands with the hills (knuckles) being 31 days and the valleys (dips) being 30 days so that the 1st knuckle is January at 31 days ending with July at 31 days then repeating from the beginning with August at 31 days, etc. (by icubaji)
- The word 'library' has the word 'bra' in it. This has helped me numerous times. (only works if you think female librarians are hot) (by lbangs)
- Please excuse my dear aunt Sally. --> parentheses, exponents, divide, add, subtract (by La Mancha)
- King Philip cut open five green snakes. --> kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species (by La Mancha)
- to recall Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Ghosts Haunt Stone Towers More Cautiously Lately --> Great Pyramid of Giza; Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Statue of Zeus at Olympia; Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; Colossus of Rhodes; Lighthouse at Alexandria
- Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. --> To help predict the weather. (by buddy)
- Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always. --> To remember the bass clef (by buddy)
Author Comments:
Suggestions are really needed as I think most of you should know more of these aids in English than I do.
Thanks to: P Pogo, cramoukji, Wezzo, icubaji, lbangs, LaMancha.
ah ah that's silly
Yeah, they are sometimes really silly, but often enough also helpful!
Some obvious and easy ones, just to get the ball rolling....
HOMES: initials of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
Roy G. Biv: initials of colors of the rainbow in order (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: a phrase whose first letters represent lines in the treble clef (E, G, B, D, F)
"In fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." - rhyme to remember historical date.
Very useful. Thanks.
"I before E except after C" - a rhyme to help remember an English spelling rule (made famous in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Liquor before beer, never fear. Beer before liquor, never sicker. - Leftover from my college days. Used when you're too drunk to remember which order of drinking results in gastrointestinal catastrophe.
Thanks once more, P Pogo!!!
The extended remix version of this is: I before E except after C, unless sounds like "ay" as in "neighbor" or "weigh". oh yeah, and don't forget "science". ;)
We have something like that in Belgium... "Wijn na bier, 't is plezier Bier na wijn 't is venijn"... which can be translated as drinking beer after wine is pleasurable, drinking wine after beer is venomous (makes you sick)
Interesting, interesting. Thanks!
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
or
Many Vultures Eat Many Juicy Steaks Using New Plates
for the planets, in order closest to furthest from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Eatth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
Ah well, thanks, Wezzo. That's probably the English pendant to the German aid I have mentioned above.
One I always liked was one given to me by a biology teacher. He was teaching us about cell division and told us that it was easy to remember the difference between myosis (sexual cell division) and mitosis (non-sexual cell divison) because, as everyone knows, my toesies are not sexy.
Ok, I don't understand a word, but I definetly add it as it could be helpful for other people (who know more about this than me).
The Royal Houses of Britain: "No place like yours to study history well."
Normans, Plantagenets, Lancaster, York, Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, Windsor.
Oh! Also, "Thirty days hath September/April, June and November." Followed sometimes by "All the rest have thirty-one except February" but that doesn't really rhyme well. Alternative non-verbal aid is to use your knuckles on your hands with the hills (knuckles) being 31 days and the valleys (dips) being 30 days so that the 1st knuckle is January at 31 days ending with July at 31 days then repeating from the beginning with August at 31 days, etc.
Helpful indeed. Especially for the Royal Houses of Britain. Thx.
The word 'library' has the word 'bra' in it. This has helped me numerous times.
Okay, I guess this only works if you think female librarians are hot.
Um, I'll be leaving now...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs ;)
Now that is very original. I add it as it was an aid for you. Perhaps we gonna find someone else who uses this... :)
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally. --> parentheses, exponents, divide, add, subtract
King Philip cut open five green snakes. --> kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Also very original. Thanks!
Those were actually common knowledge in my grade school, but I did make this one up for the all-but-impossible to recall Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Ghosts Haunt Stone Towers More Cautiously Lately -->
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Two more for you, just to resurrect this educational list. ;)
1) Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always (to remember the bass clef). I realize you already have the treble clef on there.
2) Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. This one is apparently to help predict the weather, though I have no idea if it works.
Thank you. Yup, lists need resurrection. :)