English mnemonics.
- How to spell:
- BECAUSE - Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
- ACCOMMODATION - two Cats, two Mice and a Dog (2 C and 2 M and a D)
- ACCOMMODATION - has 2 double beds (2 C and 2 M);
- ACID - A Chemical Is Dangerous
- SECRETARY - SECRETary must keep a SECRET
- TWO - Two Wet Otters
- SPECIAL - The CIA have special agents
- POTASSIUM - just remember one Tea, two Sugars.
- confusion between DESERTS (like the Sahara) and DESSERTS (like Tiramisu) - sweet one has two Sugars. - I before E except after C
Or when sounded as A
As in NEIGHBOUR and WEIGHT
But LEISURE and SEIZE
Do as they please.
And "weird" is just weird. - The following rule has no exceptions. Q is always followed by U.
- Seven colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet
ROY G. BIV
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - HOMES - five Great Lakes of North America: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.
- The order of the Great Lakes from west to east - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario
Super Man Helps Every One - The countries of Central America from North to South: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- Beatrice, Give Every Hungry Nerd Cocoa Puffs
- Big Gorillas Eat Hotdogs Not Cold Pizza - The countries of Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- My Great Big Elephants Have No Chronic Problems - The order of planets (with Pluto) in average distance from the Sun:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
- My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets
- My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets - The order of taxonomy: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach
King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti - The bones of the wrist: Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate
Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle 
=3,141592653589 - the number of letters in each word equals the numerals in pi
Seven decimal places - How I wish I could calculate pi.
Eight decimal places - May I have a large container of coffee?
Fifteen decimal places of pi, is popular with students - How I like a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.- Roman Numerals are based on seven symbols: M, D, C, L, X, V, I.
M=1000
D=500
C=100
L=50
X=10
V=5
I=1
Mnemonic rhyme written by Peter Hobbs:
M's "mille" (or 1000 said)
D's half (500 - quickly read!)
C's just a 100 (century!)
and L is half again - 50!
So all that's left is X and V
(or 10 and 5) - and I - easy!
- 1492 - Columbus Discovers America
In 14 hundred and 92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue - Number of days each month:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
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