Educational mnemonics

[Elpenor]

Can Queen Victoria Eat Cold Apple Pie

The 7 hills of Rome. Don’t know the hills though

 

[Mation]

I made this one up, to help my learners with spelling 40, but haven't had much success with it thus far

No u can't have forty pies!​

Big
Elephants
Can
Always
Understand
Small
Elephants

Seems to work well, though. (Not mine.)

 

[Saunders]

Evn mad tramps ... something to do with french verbs
Most Elephants PRefer Big PEnises (made up during o level chemistry ) for hydrocarbons.
Kadet, Police Constable, OFficer, General inSpector for taxonomy, From a revise biology a level book.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Early Oiling Might Prove Permanently Helpful.

 

[Supine]

K
P
C
O
F
G
S
C

 

[Saffy]

It was always said, people, would, could and should which they had difficulty with.
I always used -
Sally Ann is dancing
People eat orange peel like elephants
And for those 'ould' words - oh you lucky duck.

 

[Mattym]

Evn mad tramps ... something to do with french verbs

The verbs in the list take etre as their auxiliary verb ( as opposed to avoir) in the perfect (etc) tense?

 

[rubbershoes]

He held little Beryl by catching nine old flies. Next Nancy imagined all six Percy Shelleys clear away

 

[Elpenor]

OIMFAT

Something to do with Latin but can’t remember what.

 

[aqua]

King Prawn Crackers On Fresh Green Seaweed

Kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, species. I think. From the depths of my a level biology brain...

 

[Mattym]

An Autopsy Has Vicious Intentions, Ugly, Ugly New Zoo (looking at it- don't think that you should ever, under any circumstances, have the same word in the mnemonic) but it worked for me. I'll let somebody else explain why that set of German prepositions.

An
Auf
Hinter
Vor
In
Unter
Ueber
Neben
Zwischen

 

[nottsgirl]

Live is brown, because if you touch it, you’ll shit yourself.

Never separate a para from his parachute.

 

[rubbershoes]

Live is brown, because if you touch it, you’ll shit yourself.

Or as my dad told me, George Brown is a live wire. Though he never explained how referring to a politician who was active before I was born was meant to be easy to remember. Despite that, the phrase has stayed in my head for more than 40 years

 

[marty21]

Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Early Oiling Might Prove Permanently Helpful.

I still remember the first part of that one from my Geology O Level (19fucking81)

 

[planetgeli]

I made this one up, to help my learners with spelling 40, but haven't had much success with it thus far

No u can't have forty pies!​

Big
Elephants
Can
Always
Understand
Small
Elephants

Seems to work well, though. (Not mine.)

Big
Elephants
Can
Overload
Zoos

 

[Mation]

Big
Elephants
Can
Overload
Zoos

Blasted
extra-
correct
olternative
spellings!

Plus I'm now off to see the fucking wizard

 

[platinumsage]

Lower colour temperatures on the Kelvin scale are yeLLow. Higher ones are wHite.

 

[A380]

Or as my dad told me, George Brown is a live wire. Though he never explained how referring to a politician who was active before I was born was meant to be easy to remember. Despite that, the phrase has stayed in my head for more than 40 years

bLue left bRown right. How to wire a plug, not that you have to do this much…

 

[WouldBe]

See those are sensible so which idiot decided the HoT tap should be on the left and the coLd tap should be on the right to help blind people?

 

[WouldBe]

He held little Beryl by catching nine old flies. Next Nancy imagined all six Percy Shelleys clear away

We were always told to pronounce the first 3 rows of the periodic table. Works quite nicely but goes to shit after that.

 

[petee]

there's nothing ill about the Iliad
and nothing odd about the Odyssey

(aids for spelling the names of those poems)

 

[ouirdeaux]

Or as my dad told me, George Brown is a live wire. Though he never explained how referring to a politician who was active before I was born was meant to be easy to remember. Despite that, the phrase has stayed in my head for more than 40 years

Same here, although I was alive when George Brown was being a live wire, if not aware of his antics. And how long is it since the skill needed to wire a plug became superfluous?

Some of these mnemonics are harder to remember than whatever it is they're supposed to help with, at least for me.

I can't forget that Rebel, serfs, rebel! Resent wrongs so dire! will assist in remembering the somewhat irregular rhythm of dochmiacs. Not that I've needed to remember them for nearly half a century, and I don't suppose I had all that much to do with them at the time.

 

[WouldBe]

Or as my dad told me, George Brown is a live wire. Though he never explained how referring to a politician who was active before I was born was meant to be easy to remember. Despite that, the phrase has stayed in my head for more than 40 years

Wiring colours in the UK changed in 2006.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Officially, but the new ones had been in use since, well, George Brown was a live wire.

In the current system, brown is live.

Guide To Electrical Wiring Colours In The UK | Skills Training Group

Struggling to tell your neutral from your live? Read this Skills Training Group guide to learn all about electrical wiring colours in the UK.

www.skillstg.co.uk

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Officially, but the new ones had been in use since, well, George Brown was a live wire.

In the current system, brown is live.

Guide To Electrical Wiring Colours In The UK | Skills Training Group

Struggling to tell your neutral from your live? Read this Skills Training Group guide to learn all about electrical wiring colours in the UK.

www.skillstg.co.uk

I've not had to rewire a plug for decades. It used to be something you had to do more often when I was younger. I guess I remember how to do it as its like riding a bike.

 

[Ted Striker]

I always had "Some Old Cats Are Horrible To Other Animals" for trig.

The rhythm ome is awesome, I never remember how to spell that!