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!)

Lucy lefty, righty tighty - doing up bolts.

Stalactites have to hold on TIGHT, and stalagmites MIGHT grow up to touch the ceiling.

You won’t believe it but there’s a lie in the middle of believe.

Some of the ones mentioned are genius!

Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle and read backwards gives the order of the flats.

I remember our music class dissolving into mayhem when the teacher asked a boy if he could read that backwards and he said faux-innocently, "battle ends and goes down on Father Charles??"

The teacher tried so hard not to laugh

** or "Charles' Father"... either way it was hilarious when we were 16

Practice/practise, advice/advise etc...

is - is a verb -
ice - is a noun

you advise someone by giving advice
you practise medicine at the doctor's practice

Just thought of another one.

Able Bodied Seamen Catch Hairy Pirates.

That’s for the surnames of Henry VIII’s wives.

“friend” ends in “end”.

Directions on compass - Never Eat Shredded Wheat = North, East, South, West

Or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water!

"On old Olympus' Towering Tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops" - a mnemonic for the 12 cranial nerves - olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, auditory, glossopharyngeal, vagus, sensory (accessory), and hypoglossal.

One Collar and two Sleeves are Necessary on a shirt.

My school physics teacher, who taught us very little of actual use, did say
Virgins In Bed Get Your Organ Red
Colours of the rainbow.

For scholars of German:
Aus, Bei, Nach, Mit, Zeit, Von, Zu
Take the dative,
I know they do.

Also: DOG WUF [durch, ohne, gegen, weider, um, fur are the prepositons that take the accusitive case.

Unfortunately there isn't a rat in desperate! There is one in separate though?
You're right. I meant separate not desperate.

Mine was when I was a student midwife, everything had mnemonics! I haven’t worked as a midwife for many years now but I still remember the one for reading a CTG!

To remember how to spell how words that start PSYCH:

People Scramble Your Crazy Head

Diarrhoea - Dash is a real rush hurry or else accident.

Necessary - never eat cake, eat strawberry sandwiches or remain young.

Sin, cos tan - Signs of happiness come after having tankards of ale.

Because - big elephants can't always understand small elephants

Classification of organisms - Keep penis clean or forget good sex (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)

Planets - my very easy method just shows us nine planets

Stationery has an e in it for envelopes, pens, pencils etc

Stationary has an a in it for transport ie cars, trains and planes

It’s how I always remember which to use

Rhythm - Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving 😊

Necessary- one coffee, two sugars

Stationary is what a train is in a station.

Stationery has an e for envelope.

Stationary is what a train is in a station.

But how does that help you remember if it's -ary or -ery?

Oh sorry, a in station, a at the end.

Advice for diluting concentrated acids.
May her sleep be long and placid,
She added water to the acid
The other girl did what we taught her
She added the acid to the water

Glad to see the cranial nerve ones have a been mentioned as that’s what I was coming on to say!

Sexy singles and radiant men must unite for nerves coming out of the brachial plexus

we had - you buy stationery at a stationers