Most do, yes. Niether of mine fit into the “most” catagory.
When I was in middle school, I always had trouble remembering how many feet were in a mile (5280). A teacher suggested coming up with a way to remember each of the two halves separately. 52 was easy, as it’s the number of cards in a deck. 80 was harder. What’s something there’s 80? The teaches told me to just use something silly or random so I would remember that and the number by connection and made a suggestion. To this day, in my mind, 80 is the number of clams in a basket.
There’s an intersection on my school’s campus where, as a pedestrian attempting to cross quickly, it is helpful to remember whether the inbound or outbound traffic receives the leading left turn arrow. The outbound side goes first, and happens to pass a Boloco restaurant, so I said to myself “Boloco goes first-o.” I’ve never forgotten it.
Yep. Most in the USA. I don’t have to do tech support for anyone outside the US…yet.
I remember hearing a long time ago a mnemonic for remembering license tags: Convert the numbers to a dollar amount, and make a short sentence for the letters. For instance, “381 IOV” might be “$3.81, I Own a Violin.” This came in pretty handy a few times before cell phone cameras.
To change the subject a little bit: One of the things I’ve learned by hard experience: If you’re involved in a fender bender, the FIRST thing to do is take a picture of the other car’s license tag.
Toronto Girls Can Flirt And Other Quirky Things Canadians Do
Moh’s hardness scale
There’s one I got from a music humour book, on how to remember the order of sharps in a key signature. The order of sharps is FCGDAEB, remembered by the phrase “Father Christmas Gets Diarrhea After Eating Biscuits.”
Ya know. On most cars, If you look at the gas gauge there’s this little arrowpointing to the side of the car the filler is on.
StalacTite and stalagMite. I picture the T as hanging down from the cave ceiling and the M as standing up from the floor. Came up with this when I was a 12yo budding geologist only to find out later that the normal mnemonic is c for ceiling and g for ground.
I’ve got more I’m sure but the OP jogged this particular memory.
When I went through BE&E in '82, they taught us “Bad boys rob our young girls behind victory garden walls.” My brother taught me the other version (including “GSN”) later.
Unless, of course, you’re drinking white port…
I always remember as the T is at the** TOP** of the cave and the M is like a** Mountain** rising up from the floor.
He probably overlooked that. But you have to forgive him since you overlooked post #6.
The classic med student’s mnemonic for the cranial nerves: “On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, A Fat-Assed German Vends His Hops”. Haven’t a clue what the nerves are, I just remember the phrase.
Cranial nerves, as to motor, sensory, or both-
Some say marry money, but my brother says bad boys marry money.
Geologic timescale (ya gotta just remember precambrian goes first)-
Can Orville see down my pants pocket? Tom Jones can, Tom’s queer.
Here’s one for E=IR or P=IE or F=MA or speed=distance/time problems, and others-
Write the symbols down like this:
E
I R
Cover the one you don’t know with your finger. Examples: cover E, I R are left. IR means I times R. E=IR.
Cover I, E over R is left. E over R means E divided by R, so I equals E/R.
This works with all formulae in the form of X=YZ or y=x/z. Just remember to put the two multiplied in the original formula on the bottom or the one divided by the other in the original formula on the top. This trick may seem simplistic to math people, but it really helps 9th graders with lousy math backgrounds pass physical science.
Local to Williamsville East HS, circa 1982, Mr Kolis’ bio class
Kolis Plays Cards On Friday and Gets Skunked
Kingdom, phyla, class, order, family, genus, species.
Still use it.
I always remember that a stalactite has to hang on tight to the ceiling, while a stalagmite might reach the ceiling some day.
When I played safety in high school, I used to mix up my left and right. Got really embarrassing when I was supposed to shout “Strong Left” to announce which side had more players on the line.
Coach grabbed me and told me to make an “L” with my hand and thumb. “L” for left!
From then on, I’d hold up my hand and my friends would think it was some hand signal. It even carried on into college ball.
I made this one up to remember the order of the Galilean moons:
I Envy Great Cellists
Io Europa Ganymede Callisto.
My user name is a tribute to my favorite moon, Io.
A friend wanted to be among the 1% of Americans who can name the current Supreme Court justices. She came up with . . .
The conservatives are RATS : Roberts Alito Thomas Scalia.
The liberals are Commies, thus KGBS : Kagan Ginsburg Breyer Sotomayer.
Kennedy is Kind of in the Middle.