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Forgive me, WW, if these have already appeared - I started to go through Mnemonics I and quailed at all the medical and astronomical things I knew I'd never remember, even with mnemonics!
but here are three I remember:
for the points of the compass, travelling clockwise from the top: Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
for the postal code of the CBC, Canada's national radio stations: Make 5 Weiners, I'll Eat 6 (M5W 1E6).
for spelunking: stalactites hang down from the ceiling, whereas stalgmites point up from the ground.
my apologies, again, if these were a repetition....
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Are lke ants in the pants. The mites go up and the tights go down.
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if you figure out *why these verbs take etre instead of avoir you don't need a mnemonic.
If I was that smart I wouldn't need the mnemonic! Sigh! Not gifted language-wise. Got through French mostly because I had beautiful pronunciation which I attribute to my musical training (a good "ear".)
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for the points of the compass, travelling clockwise from the top: Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
I'm all for the usefulness of mnenomics, but anyone would need *this one is entirely beyond me.
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primary level elementary school students
I think that's where I heard it...! But like you, WW, I don't think of the compass points in a clockwise way....
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It moves from North to South and then it moves across from East to West.
So, how do you remember which way to go from South?
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And lastly, but probably most usefully are instructions for wiring a British plug:
You have a blue wire and a brown wire.
Blue has an 'L' in it and Brown has an 'R'
So, the blue wire goes to the left and the brown to the right
(and if they've given you an earth that only leaves one place for it to go)
A British plug has the letters N, L and E for Neutral, Live and Earth. The blue wire is Neutral and the brown wire Live so the simplest way to remember is to say Blue-Neu-tral. The Earth wire is Green and Yellow and is easy to remember.
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In two bursts I replugged 31 appliances here in Britain when we shifted here from NZ. There are cutesey little wiring diagrams on every plug these days, but I remembered it instead using bLue bRown. So indirectly the mnemonic worked for me!
- Pfranz
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All we had to remember was North at the top (apologies to antipodean sensibilities), and then WEst, so W on the left and E on the right.
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