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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 P lease D o N ot T hrow S ausage P izza A way correspond to the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation ...
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick:
Knuckle mnemonic. A mnemonic for the number of days in each month uses the knuckles (and the dips between them) of two fists, held together, moving right from the left pinky knuckle. The raised knuckles can be seen as the 31-day months, the dips between them as the 30-day-months (and February). The gap between the hands ignored.
Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian calendar.Each knuckle represents a 31-day month. A mnemonic device (/ n ə ˈ m ɒ n ɪ k / nə-MON-ik) [1] or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
An 1834 manual states a similar rule in prose; [11] others in 1855 and 1862 use different rhymes. [12] [13] Many textbooks from the 1870s on use the same rhyme as Laurie's book. [10] The restriction to the "long e" sound is explicitly made in the 1855 and 1862 books, and applied to the "I before E except after C" rhyme in an 1871 manual. [14]
Mnemonic rhymes have been considered by teachers to be an effective technique for schoolchildren to learn the complex rules of Latin accidence and syntax. [ 1 ] One of the earliest uses of mnemonic verse to teach Latin was the Doctrinale by Alexander of Villedieu , which was an entire grammar of the language comprising 2,000 lines of doggerel ...
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember many digits of the mathematical constant π.The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology.
Several studies have investigated the use of this memory mnemonic as a form of an imagery-based memory system within the process of learning a second-language. [7] For example, if a native English speaker is attempting to learn Spanish, he will notice that the Spanish for duck is pato, which is pronounced similarly to the English word pot.