What memory phrases have you created?

[drastic_quench]

@Zeldar

There’s a neat card trick that depends on the qualities of this array:

GOOSE
BIBLE
ATLAS
THIGH

Each row contains a double letter and a letter in common with each other row.

The trick: (works with up to ten trickees)

-Deal out 10 2-card groups face down on a surface.

-Have your trickee(s) select a 2-card group, memorize it, and set it back down while your back is turned or you leave the room.

• Without mixing the groups together, pick all of them up

• Lay them out face-up according to the array above.

-Ask the trickee(s) to tell you which row or rows his/her/their cards are in.

-Point out, or pick up, the indicated groups and amaze all involved.

Nevermind. I found the link that does into detail.

[kenobi_65]

A friend of mine in high school came up with this one to remember the geometry formulas for sine, cosine, and tangent:

Some Old Hens
Cackle And Howl
Til Old Age

Some Old Hens -> Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse

Cackle And Howl -> Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse

Til Old Age -> Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent

[Dung_Beetle]

I can’t think of any I’ve invented at the moment, but when my kids are trying to study for tests, I can usually come up with something rude which helps them remember.

I vividly recall Grandma teaching us to spell occupy: “Oh see, see! You pee! Why?”

[Zeldar]

What’s almost as much fun as coming up with neat phrases to remember difficult sequences by, is taking simple and easy to remember things and making complicated mnemonics for them.

Example: STOP

Skid Tires On Pavement
Shouldn’t Tease Our Policemen

It gets even worse when acronyms for good old Anglo-Saxon words are invented:

Found Under Carnal Knowledge

And I have been debating whether to share my PIN for my bank card which, for some bizarre reason, I remember better as a phrase than as a 4-digit number.

Betty’s A Crummy Floozie

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

@kenobi_65

A friend of mine in high school came up with this one to remember the geometry formulas for sine, cosine, and tangent:

Some Old Hens
Cackle And Howl
Til Old Age

Some Old Hens -> Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse

Cackle And Howl -> Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse

Til Old Age -> Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent

We used the Native American sounding name: Sohcahtoa (So-ca-tow-a)