Memory Joggers!

[English Lady]

Hello all!

I have a couple of little rhymes and things I've picked up over the years for remembering spellings.

A primary school teacher taught me


"I will be a friend until the end"

to remember that I comes before E in the word friend.


My sister was taught a rhyme for spelling "because "

Baby's Eating Custard And Uncle's Selling Eggs

Has anyone else got any of these little memory joggers for spelling or grammar? I need as much help as i can get on both fronts!

 

[Chicklet]

uhm...just "I" before "e" except after "c"

(I've got a couple for things that aren't grammar...for remembering the order of Norway Finland and Sweden "no school friday" and for remembering the order of notes for something "every good band deserves fudge." - no good to remember that one if I don't recall what it's for, eh?)

 

[cookiejar]

We were taught ... H-O-M-E-S to rememember the Great Lakes

H-Huron
O-Ontario
M-Michigan
E-Erie
S-Superior

 

[Guest]

PrinciPAL vs. pinciple: "The principal is your pal."

Yeah right. Mine was a butch nun who called us sluts for smoking and suspended us if we were seen getting a ride home with a boy.

 

[English Lady]

chicklet....isn't there a second bit to the "i after e except after c..." thing? because i doesn't always work....but don't ask me for an example i can't think of one*L*


Cookie jar....ahh we learnt Never Eat Shredded Wheat for the directions on a compass (North,East,South,West)


Perdita...we don't realy have principals over hear,we have headteachers so i've never heard that one before!

 

[Guest]

i afer e

I was taught, "i after e, except after c."

Lady, 'headmaster' rouses me, haha. P

 

[Guest]

musical jogger

No, I'm one of the 3 people in California that doesn't jog.

When taking piano lessons I was taught "Every good boy does fine" for remembering the notes on the lines and FACE for the ones in the spaces.

But I was always suspicious of those good boys.

 

[MathGirl]

Mammary joggers

On Old Olympus Towering Top, A Finn And German Vaulted and Hopped.

Wheeeeeeee.
MG

 

[cookiejar]

uhm...just "I" before "e" except after "c"

(I've got a couple for things that aren't grammar...for remembering the order of Norway Finland and Sweden "no school friday" and for remembering the order of notes for something "every good band deserves fudge." - no good to remember that one if I don't recall what it's for, eh?)

"every good band deserves fudge" ....I think musical notes...

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

chicklet....isn't there a second bit to the "i after e except after c..." thing? because i doesn't always work....but don't ask me for an example i can't think of one*L*

I'm not Chicklet but, it's i before e except after c or when sounding like a in neighbor and weigh.

Here's one I learned to spell arithmetic

A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream

Wicked

 

[English Lady]

ah well done wicked n erotic! i can never remember that last bit*L*

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Mammary joggers

On Old Olympus Towering Top, A Finn And German Vaulted and Hopped.

Huh. Nobody asked, so I assume everyone on here knows what that is.
MG

Ps. Damn, this place is dead lately. Maybe I'd better see if DurtGurl is back in town.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

On Old Olympus Towering Top, A Finn And German Vaulted and Hopped.

ok, no clue, enlighten me, please.



Wicked

 

[gauchecritic]

constestants in a beauty contest Miss Bee, Miss E, Miss A.U.T, Miss Eye, Miss F.U.L.

And the days in a month thing; 30 days hath September et,c.

Gauche

 

[oggbashan]

Columbus crossed the ocean blue
In fourteen hundred and ninety two.

Og

 

[wildsweetone]

pneumonics (i don't know the spelling and should have learnt a phrase to help me remember that ) I think that's what they're called.

Marks Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Ninety Parakeets.
But 'x' kinda messes that up these days.

Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs SSI, Mrs SSI, Mrs PPI.




MG what's yours mean?

 

[oggbashan]

Mnemonics

I had to look that up.

Heres another one about the fate of my wives.

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
A very commonly heard mnemonic for the six wives of Henry VIII.

Og

 

[champagne1982]

When Two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.

Once there were 3 squaws sitting on animal hides. The first squaw had 2 sons, the second had 3. The third squaw, who had a moose hide, had 5 sons. The result of this story is that the sons of the squaw on the hide of the moose equals the sons of the squaws on the other 2 hides.... Pythagorean theorum at it's corniest...
(in a right triangle, the square of the hypoteneuse equals the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides.

To remember your 9 times table;
list the numerals 0 through 9 down the page and then, right beside them, list them backwards from 9 through 0.

0 9 = 1 x 9
1 8 = 2 x 9
2 7 = 3 x 9
3 6 = 4 x 9
4 5 = 5 x 9
5 4 = 6 x 9
6 3 = 7 x 9
7 2 = 8 x 9
8 1 = 9 x 9
9 0 = 10 x 9

If I think of more I'll let ya know.

Carrie (xxxotica, champagne1982)

 

[Gabriel_Lee]

Now I will a rhyme construct
By chosen words the young instruct.
Cunningly devised endeavor,
Con it and remember ever.
Widths of circle here you see.
Sketched out in strange obscurity

MG's is for the cranial nerves, but don't ask me what they are.

GL

 

[Rainbow Skin]

VIBGYOR

Education has changed. I just learnt it as VIBGYOR, pronounced VIB-GYOR.

My younger sister learnt it as Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Results, which would have got us suspended, detained, redded, or otherwise marked.

I must have a peculiar mind, as I find it easier to remember the original: (deep breath) hydrogenheliumlithiumberyllium...

 

[wildsweetone]

Re: Mnemonics

I had to look that up.

Og

Thanks Og! I knew there was another 'm' in there somewhere, didn't think of the beginning.

 

[cahab]

"every good band deserves fudge" ....I think musical notes...

What? That makes no sense. I was taught this as 'Every good boy deserves favour'.

I have tried to do them a favour as often as possible.

 

[cahab]

WooHoo! I'm no longer a virgin!

It's been a long time since I last said that.

 

[Guest]

WooHoo! I'm no longer a virgin!

It's been a long time since I last said that.

Congrats, hon, but being 'experienced' on Lit. leaves much to be desired is my experience; just saying. Congrats though if it makes you hoot and holler. your fan, Perdita

 

[cahab]

Congrats, hon, but being 'experienced' on Lit. leaves much to be desired is my experience; just saying. Congrats though if it makes you hoot and holler. your fan, Perdita

Funilly enough, now I'm experienced, it all seems a bit of a let-down.

Deja Vu.