In a magazine article covering Custer's death, there is this statement:

"This story of those last moments wasn't publicly told until 81 years after the rash young commander and over 200 of his calvarymen were wiped out in the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn" (emphasis mine). [From: "The Warrior Who Killed Custer" in True West: Celebrating the American West May/June 2003.

I was very surprised to see cavalry misspelled, particularly in a magazine about the West.

Now a little mnemonic I've always used is:

Calvary has that 'l' in the first syllable, which I look at as the vertical beam in the Cross; cavalry, instead has the "V" in the first syllable that I imagine to be the downward slope in the saddle in which a cavalry sitter sits. It's a stretch, but it works.

Any other mnemonics for these two sometimes confused words--or perhaps others? [We've talked about mnemonics before, but I thought maybe mnemonics for words might be fun if anyone's so inclined.]