Please send your mnemonics to:
mailto:drdscovery@aol.com
A mnemonic (SAMPA /n@manIc/ in US or /ni:mQnIc/ in UK) is a memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, sometimes in verse form, and are often used to remember lists. Mnemonics rely on not only repetition to remember facts, but also on creating associations between easy-to-remember constructs and lists of data. The word "mnemonic" echoes the figure Mnemosyne who personified "Memory" in Greek mythology.
As a kid, I used a few mnemonics to remember crucial information for school tests; ROY G. BIV for, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, for the colors of the rainbow. What I didn't know was that there are probably thousands of mnemonics for remembering all kinds of data. These could have been wonderfully helpful, if I had only know they existed!
In a effort to correct my lost ways, I'm searching for all mnemonics to be assembled in a coherent database that everyone can use for their own education.
Please email me your own mnemonics, with details, and I'll include them here with proper credit from their source. Thank you!! drdscovery@aol.com
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Here are some of the mnemonics I remember:
| ROY G. BIV - Red Orange Yellow, Green, Blue Indigo Violet (the colors of the rainbow in order of their appearance) |
| My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles -
(the planets in order from the sun) http://users.frii.com/geomanda/mnemonics/astronomy.html |
| Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - Math Order of Operations |
| Oh, Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Smack - The modern stellar spectral classification scheme (also known as the Harvard Spectral Classification Scheme) http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/allen/obafgkmrns.html |
| Lucky Cows Drink Milk - The ascending order of Roman numerals: LCDM |
| How
I wish I could recapture pi. Eureka! cried the great inventor. Christmas pudding, Christmas pie Is at the problem’s very center.
3.141592653589793223846 |
| General Electric Power Company - This is for remembering the order of Galations, Ephesians, Phillipians and Colossians in the Bible. |
| People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms - This stands for PCMCIA, which is a credit-card sized slot found mostly on portable computers for cards such as modems and network interface devices. Stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. |
| All Cows Eat Grass - The notes represented by the spaces on the bass clef, bottom to top. |
| Good Boys Do Fine Always - The lines on the bass clef. |
| Every Good Boy Does Fine - The notes represented by the lines on the treble cleff, bottom to top. |
| The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - To type or write every letter of the alphabet. |
| I wonder if there's any red port wine left," -
Port and Starboard sides of a boat (red=left, green=right) Additional boating nemonics: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/mnemonics.html#port |
| stalagmite - stalactite = Ground and Ceiling Stalactites drop from the ceiling and Stalagmites rise up from the ground. |
Additional Resources:
Medical mnemonics: http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/
Amanda's Mnemonics Page - http://users.frii.com/geomanda/mnemonics.html
Additional nemonics:
http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnframe.htm
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Please send your mnemonics to:
mailto:john@johnkalpus.com