MNEMONICS
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A post by Kenneth’s about LINKING in PLS's Facebook page reminded me of the use of mnemonics to remember
a list of things. It is useful in learning/memorizing.
These
are some mnemonics I remembered over the years.
In
music: The lines in a G-Clef are EGBDF (Every Good Boy Does Fine) and the
spaces between the five lines are FACE (as in “face”).
The
lines and spaces that appear on the Bass Clef have their own mnemonics also.
You
know, if you have a long list of items to memorise, try to create a mnemonic to
help you remember.
While
studying Chemistry, we had to remember the first twenty elements of the
Periodic Table. One night a Chimbu classmate sang a song that sounded like a traditional
tune. We asked him what he was doing singing during night study time and he
smiled saying: “I have composed a song. The words come from the first twenty chemical
elements of the Periodic Table.” We were shocked at first but later saw the
funny side of it.
I
memorized those twenty elements too and can recite them anywhere and anytime. I
just wrote the symbols of those elements HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKCa. Can
you see the different elements in the very long word. I remembered the lot by
thinking of a man named “HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAl” “SiP” “SClArKCa”. That is, the
man with the long name “sip/drank” a drink called “SClArKCa”.
After
many years I still remember that.
In
classification of animals, in Biology, the different categories from the larger
groups down are KPCOFGS … KP a man, “cough (COF)” “GS” a substance out.
K
= Kingdom, P = Phylum, C = Class, O = Order, F = Family , G = Genus, S =
Species.
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