# Your favorite mnemnonics

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**Created:** [November 25, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mnemnonics/427735 "2007-11-25T22:07:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mnemnonics/427735/61 "2007-11-28T22:38:15Z")

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[QUOTE=enigm4tic]  
my favorite one is 12 k of g in a… wait a minute, what did that stand for again?  
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You. Out of the thread!

😉

I had a bunch of these when learning my latin binomials in herb school, but I think the only one I can remember at the moment is for horehound, aka marrubium vulgare.

**You marry a bum, you get vulgare, thanks to that whore he hounded!**  
(No, I have no idea what STD “vulgare” is s’posed to be, but it’s evocative, isn’t it?)

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