Mnemonic aids

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I was helping my DS with the colours of the rainbow and used the Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain as a way of remembering.

He thought it was magic!

Can I ask what’s your best mnemonic aid?

Mine was “My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets” (until Pluto got downgraded!)

@andantecantabile
Yes that's it! Thank you. I keep meaning to look it up then forgetting when I'm actually near my music books.

Planets - My very elegant mother just served up nice pizza
Trigonometry - Combs are handy since our hair touches our ankles
Treble clef notation (lines) - Every green bus drives fast
Something to do with biology - Make Tea

@Furiosa wish I’d known that Kingdom Phylum one 25 years ago!

The Girls Can Flirt and Other Things Can Do (Moh’s Scale of Hardness - mineralogy)

We learned the 1st 20 elements as a string - "Huh" Helibeb Cnof Ne Namgal Sips Clark Ca.

May not be funny, but learning that was the single most useful homework I've ever done. Miss Dixon rules.

Don’t Play Near Yellow Snow (dear person’s name, yours sincerely (therefore Dear sir/madam, yours faithfully))

Bad Boys Ruin Our Young Girls But Virgins Go Without

The non racist, non misogynistic version of colour codes for electronic resister values.

Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ambydex

I'm shocked. We learnt the exact same thing. I thought that it was just a weird thing that our school did.

I can still remember that from 35 years ago.

I carefully lined up the numbers under the colours!

Dash In A Rush, Really Hurry Or Else Accident! DIARRHOEA

Mother Very Easily Made A Jam Sandwich Using No Peanuts, Mayonnaise or Glue.

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Asteroids Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Mickey Goofy.

dI And Ronald Regan Have Oranges Every Afternoon = diarrhoea.

Never let monkeys eat bananas
The name of white blood cells in decreasing order of frequency

My very expensive Mercedes just smashed up near Perth (planets)

Because, big elephants can always understand small elephants
Beautiful - I remember seeing Bruce almighty and he says b-e-a-utiful

Colours Of Light Open Up Rainbows = COLOUR

People Eat Omelettes, People Like Eggs = PEOPLE

Would Old Uncle Like Dancing?
Could Old Uncle Like Dancing?
SHould Old Uncle Like Dancing?

Pigs Can Only Fly Green Spaceships

Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

(species classification)

BODMAS - brackets, order, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
There's some PORT left in the bottle (and port is red like port lights on a vessel.)
StalaCtites hang from the ceiling, StalaGmites grow from the ground.

D I A Run Run Hurry Or Exploding Arse - Diarrhoea

Oh yes.

Stalagmites stand mightily.
Stalactites cling tightly.

We learned stalagtites cling tightly to the ceiling and stalagmites might one day reach up and join them

Or

As the mites come up the tights come down (presumably for scratching)

Also Annie for remembering whether to use affect or effect. Annie is a person and therefore a noun and it’s an E for the noun.

Stalactites look like tights on a washing line!

Destinations of A roads -Every Day Please Obey the Highway Code (Edinburgh, Dover, Portsmouth, Bristol, Holyhead, Carlisle).

Merry Elephants Prefer Blue Peanuts - carbon chains (methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane).

Stalactites and stalagmites.

At the end of the day, tights come down and little mites have to grow up.

I like them when they relate to the word (I find trying to remember what Big Elephants and Small Elephants are doing harder than just remembering how to spell Because).

So I like:

Weird - When Everything Is Really Different

Rhythm - Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move

For random ones I favour:

My Very Elderly Mother Just Strangled Uncle Neil's Parrot (Planet order. When Pluto was declassified Mum was forced to turn to homicide and poor old Uncle Neil copped it )

Clock changes - Spring Forward, Fall Back

Necessary - one Collar, two Sleeves - is helpful

To work out which of Practice/Practise you need, put advice/advise in the sentence instead and say it to youself. It won't make actual sense sense, but one will sound totally wrong, so you'll know that you want the matching form of practice/practise in your sentence.

My very educated mother just served up nine pies - planets

Keep pigs clean on fabulous green snow - kingdom phylum class order...