My Mom taught me this in elementary school:
My very educated mother just served us nine pickles.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
I’m wondering what other similar sentences that make sense, sort of, to remember things, procedures, etc. I’ve heard that Med School students have a million of them, as do lawyers. I’m also sure that they turn up all over every profession and study.
A caveat–What the thread is not about:
I just learned from a current thread an acronym for order of operations in simple math (the acronym is used in America) is PEDMAS: parentheses, exponent, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. It’s an acronym because you can say it with normal consonants and vowels in English, using the correct orthography. A mnemonic, on the other hand, is a bunch of letters–IBM–which normally is sounded out by it’s letters. Mnemonics also are often turned into a normal sounding phoneme group for ease: WSO, say, which may be vocalized “wasso” or “wisso,” whatever the local speech community uses.
The previous long belabored paragraph is to clear up what this query is not about.
I’m looking for stuff like the semantic but silly sentences to remember things, like the “my mother” sentence above.
Leo