User:Benjamin Mako Hill/List of mnemonics I have trouble remembering
- See the list of mnemonics article for more mnemonics including many that I never knew or don't have trouble remembering, but that you might have trouble with.
I have trouble remembering many mnemonics including the ones in the following list. In some situations (i.e., the planet names) I have no problem remembering the referent (i.e., the planet names) and must them as a mnemonic for the mnemonic itself:
- Notes on the lines of the Bass clef: Good Boys Do Fine Always
- Differentiating stalactites and stalagmites (I can't remember if the operative preposition is from or to): Stalactites project downward from the ceiling and stalagmites project upward from the ground.
- The planets (now that Pluto is not a planet, we all have to remember a new mnemonic): My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles
- Trigonometric functions: Chief Sohcahtoa (Soh: sine opposite hypotenuse, etc.)
- The poem used to remember British monarchs (This seems only marginally easier to remember than the list. Luckily, I am not British so this is probably forgivable in my case):
Willie Willie Harry Stee (William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen) Harry Dick John Harry three; (Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III) One two three Neds, Richard two (Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II) Harrys four five six, then who? (Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI) Edwards four five, Dick the bad, (Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III) Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad); (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI) Mary, Bessie, James you ken, (Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I) Then Charlie, Charlie, James again... (Charles I, Charles II, James II) Will and Mary, Anna Gloria, (William III, Mary II, Anne) Georges four, Will four, Victoria; (George I, George II , George III , George IV , William IV , Victoria ) Edward seven next, and then (Edward VII) Came George the fifth in nineteen-ten; (George V) Ned the eighth soon abdicated (Edward VIII) Then George six was coronated; (George VI) After which Elizabeth (Elizabeth II) Has the throne, until her death
- Old elephants have much skin (Remembering the names of the Great Lakes in their correct order.)
- Resistor color band colors: Black beetles running on your garden bring very good weather
- Daylight savings time: Spring forward, fall back.
- Hierarchy of the taxonomy in Biology (In this case, there are so many of them that I'm confused as to which mnemonic, if any, are correct): King Phillip Came Over For Great Spagetti
- Geological eras (i.e., Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous): Pregnant Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak
- Which side are men and women's buttons sewn onto normally: Women are always, right.
- How to tie a bowline (Well, I remember this one but it doesn't help me remember how to tie the knot because other information, like what the scene looks like, is not included in the mnemonic):
The fox comes out of his hole, Runs round the tree, And goes back into his hole.