To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, [Variety]):
"Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" is often cited as a non-vulgar method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification of system.[5][6] Other variations tend to start with the mythical king, with one author noting "The nonsense about King Philip, or some ribald version of it, has been memorized by generations of biology students".[7]
For the EIA electronic color code, Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2), Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5), Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8), White(9), Gold(5%), Silver(10%), None(20%)
Big brown rabbits often yield great big vocal groans when gingerly slapped[14]
Bad boys run our young girls behind victory garden walls[15]
B .BRoy [of] Great Britain [has] Very Good Wife.
A mnemonic to remember which way to turn common (right-hand thread) screws and nuts, including light bulbs, is "Righty-tighty, Lefty-loosey"; another is "Right on, Left off".[8]: 165
For the OSI Network Layer model Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away correspond to the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation and Application layers.
For power in watts: Twinkle twinkle little star, Power equals I (current) squared R (resistance).
ELI the ICE man tells us E leads the I in an inductor, I leads the E in a capacitor. Useful in power factor correction.
Geographyedit
Both names of the northern major circles of latitude (the Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer) have six letters; both southern ones (the Antarctic Circle and Tropic of Capricorn) have nine.
The 'mites go up and the 'tites come down. When one has ants in one's pants, the mites go up and the tights come down.[8]: 66 (In a strict scientific sense, a mite is not an ant, although "mite" in common speech can refer to any small creature.)
Stalactites hang tight, hang down like tights on a line; stalagmitesmight bite (if you sit on them), might reach the roof.[8]: 66
Tights hang from the Ceiling, and Mites crawl around on the Ground
You need might to do push-ups (from the floor). You must hold tight doing chin-ups (off the ceiling).
Stalactites are on the ceiling. Stalagmites are on the ground.[8]: 66
Stalactites cling tight to the ceiling; stalagmitesmight reach the ceiling.
I always comes before E (but after C, E comes before I)[23][24]
In most words like friend, field, piece, pierce, mischief, thief, tier, it is "i" which comes before "e". But on some words with c just before the pair of e and i, like receive, perceive, "e" comes before "i". This can be remembered by the following mnemonic,
But this is not always obeyed as in case of weird and weigh, weight, height, neighbor etc. and can be remembered by extending that mnemonic as given below
I before E, except after C
Or when sounded "A" as in neighbor, weigh and weight
Or when sounded like "eye" as in height
And "weird" is just weird
Another variant, which avoids confusion when the two letters represent different sounds instead of a single sound, as in atheist or being, runs
When it says ee
Put i before e
But not after c
Where ever there is a Q there is a U too
Most frequently u follows q. e.g.: Que, queen, question, quack, quark, quartz, quarry, quit, Pique, torque, macaque, exchequer. Hence the mnemonic:
There was a farmer named Sep and one day his wife saw a rat. She yelled, “Sep! A rat – E!!!”[26]
PRINCIPAL
The principal is your pal.
Distinguishing between similar wordsedit
Difference between Advice & Advise, Practice & Practise, Licence & License etc.
Advice, Practice, Licence etc. (those with c) are nouns and Advise, Practise, License etc. are verbs.
One way of remembering this is that the word ‘noun’ comes before the word ‘verb’ in the dictionary; likewise ‘c’ comes before ‘s’, so the nouns are ‘practice, licence, advice’ and the verbs are ‘practise, license, advise’.[27]
The verbs in French that use the auxiliary verb être in the compound past (sometimes called "verbs of motion") can be memorized using the phrase "Dr. (and) Mrs. Vandertramp":
The first 15 numbers of Pi can be remembered by counting the letters in the phrase, "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics."
Quadratic equationedit
The articulation of the quadratic equation can be sung to the tune of various songs as a mnemonic device.[33]
Mathematical operationsedit
For helping students in remembering the rules in adding and multiplying two signed numbers, Balbuena and Buayan (2015) made the letter strategies LAUS (like signs, add; unlike signs, subtract) and LPUN (like signs, positive; unlike signs, negative), respectively.[34] Order of Operations PEMDAS Please - Parenthesis
Excuse - Exponents
My - Multiplication
Dear - Division
Aunt - Addition
Sally - Subtraction
(In the UK, the phrase BIDMAS is used instead; Brackets, Indices, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.)[35]
Trigonometryedit
The mnemonic "SOHCAHTOA" (occasionally spelt "SOH CAH TOA") is often used to remember the basic trigonometric functions:[36]
Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse
Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse
Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent
Other mnemonics that have been used for this include:
Some Old Hippie
Caught Another Hippie
Tripping On Acid.
Ships Of Holland Call At Harwich To Obtain Apples.
Sighs Of Happiness Come After Having Tankards Of Ale.
Some Old Hen Caught Another Hen Taking Off Alone.
Silly Old Hitler Can't Advance His Troops On Africa.
Mnemonics are used in remembering guitar string names in standard tuning.[44]
Every Average Dude Gets Better Eventually
Eggs Are Deliciously Good Breakfast Energy
Eddy Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddy
Every Adult Dog Growls Barks Eats.
Every Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually
Even After Dinner Giant Boys Eat
Elephants All Dine Generally Before Eight
Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears
Every American Dog Gets Bones Easily
Every Angel Does Good Before Evil
Eat All Day Get Big Easy
Eine Alte Dame Geht Heute Einkaufen (German: an old lady goes shopping today)
Een Aap Die Geen Bananen Eet (Dutch: A monkey that doesn't eat bananas)
Thus we get the names of the strings from 6th string to the 1st string in that order.
Conversely, a mnemonic listing the strings in the reverse order is:
Every Beginning Guitarist Does All Exercises!
Elvis' Big Great Dane Ate Everything
Every Big Girl Deserves An Elephant
Easter Bunny Gets Drunk At Easter
Easter Bunnies Go Dancing After Easter
Ukuleleedit
As for guitar tuning, there is also a mnemonic for ukuleles.
Good Cooks Eat A-lot
In the other direction it is Aunt Evy Cooks Grits
Reading musicedit
Musicians can remember the notes associated with the five lines of the treble clef using any of the following mnemonics, EGBDF: (from the bottom line to the top)
A whole rest looks like a "hole in the ground", and a half rest looks like a hat.
Philosophyedit
THE LAD ZAPPA is a mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important) Ionian philosophers: Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Leucippus, Anaximander, Democritus, Zeno, Anaximenes, Protagoras, Parmenides, Anaxagoras .
THE PLAZA PAD is another mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important) Ionian philosophers: Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Protagoras, Leucippus, Anaximander, Zeno, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Democritus.
SPA is a mnemonic for the philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in their order of appearance, Socrates first.
Raving "Oh, You're Great, Bradley!" Is Valid (from quiz show The Chase, referring to host Bradley Walsh)
Theologyedit
TULIP, summarises the core tenants of Calvinism: Total depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.
"Red, Right, Return" reminds the skipper entering ("returning to") an IALA region B port to keep red markers to the starboard of the vessel. Conversely the opposite convention exists in IALA region A ports, where a similar (but significantly different) mnemonic of "Red on the Right Returning To Sea" can be used.
The phrase "there's always some red port (wine) left" is used to remember the basics in seafaring. "Red" refers to the color of navigation lights on the port (left) side of a vessel (as opposed to green on the starboard side).[47]
"Nuclear Restrictions Constrain Fishing and Sailing, People Say" is used to encode the "order of priority" for which vessels have right of way (earlier in the list has priority over later): Not under command; Restricted; Constrained by draft; Fishing vessel; Sailboat; Powerboat; Seaplane.[47]
Aviation[49] uses many mnemonics in addition to written checklists. See also Category: Aviation mnemonics
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^Scott Hagwood, Memory Power: You Can Develop a Great Memory--America's Grand Master Shows You How (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
^Robert A. Wallace, et al., Biology, the Science of Life (Scott, Foresman, 1986) p398
^ abcdefghijklmnParkinson, Judy (2008). I before E (except after C) : old-school ways to remember stuff. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. ISBN 978-07621-0917-3.
^"Intrinsic muscles of hand | Medical Mnemonics". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-12-19. Mnemonic- Intrinsic muscles of hand
^Textbook of Basic Nursing by Caroline Bunker Rosdahl and Mary T. Kowalski
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007) p194; Medical Terminology for Dummies by Beverley Henderson and Jennifer Dorsey (For Dummies, 2008) p327
^Caroline Bunker Rosdahl and Mary T. Kowalski, Textbook of Basic Nursing (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007) p194
^"A Beginner's Guide on How to Tune a Violin [Instructional Video]". TakeLessons Blog. 2015-10-26. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
^ ab"How to Tune Your Violin or Viola". Chris Nichols. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^"Every Good Boy Does Fine". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ abSchonbrun, Marc (2005). The Everything Music Theory Book, p.68. ISBN 1-59337-652-9.
^ abcKuenning, Geoff. "Definitions and Mnemonics for Sailors and Powerboaters". Retrieved 20 March 2013.
^"Types of navigation aids". Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-09-06. in the section "The coming in going out rule"
^Useful Aviation Mnemonics (published by Dauntless Software, Inc.)
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Further readingedit
Evans, Rod L. (2007). Every good boy deserves fudge : the book of mnemonic devices (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: Perigee. ISBN 978-0-399-53351-8.
Parkinson, Judy (2008). I before E (except after C) : old-school ways to remember stuff. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association. ISBN 978-0-7621-0917-3.
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