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This article contains a list of some common verbal mnemonics.
Most of these mnemonics consist of a simple phrase in which the first letter of each word either spells something out, or matches the first word of some sequence.
Music
- Notes on treble clef lines (E, G, B, D, F)
- Every Good Boy Does Fine (also Deserves Favour or Deserves Fudge or Deserves Fruit)
- Notes on bass clef lines (G, B, D, F, A)
- Notes on treble clef spaces (F, A, C, E)
- Notes on bass clef spaces (A, C, E, G)
- All Cows Eat Grass
- All Cars Eat Gas
- Order of sharps/flats in key signatures
- for sharps: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
- for flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father
Science and math
- The colors of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo, violet)
- the contrived name Roy G. Biv spells out the first letters
- Richard of York gave battle in vain
- Elements necessary for agriculture (carbon, hydrogen, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, copper, molybdenum, chlorine, boron)
- C(see) Hopkins CaFe, Mighty-good; Man, Cu(see your) Money, hope they are Closed or out of Business.
- Scientific classification sequence (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)
- King Philip came over for green spaghetti (or great sex)
- kinky people care only for good sex
- King Philip classifies ordered families as generally specious
- Compass directions: (north, east, south, west)
- Digits of pi (3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, ...) can be remembered by counting the number of letters in the words of the phrases
- May I have a large container of coffee?
- How I wish I could recollect pi
- How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
- and by the verse
- Now I will a rhyme construct
- By chosen words the young instruct;
- Cunningly devised endeavour!
- Con it and remember ever.
- Widths in circle here you see
- Sprawled out in strange obscurity.
- Which trigonometric function is positive in a quadrant: (I, all; II, sine; III, tangent; IV, cosine)
- all students take calculus
- all state teachers college
- operation precedences (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction)
- please excuse my dear aunt sally
Medicine
Note: medical students have developed far too many medical mnemonics over the years to list; only a sample is given here:
- The cranial nerves
- on old olympus' tiny top a finn and german viewed some hops
- oh oh oh to touch a fresh virgin girl's vagina and hymen
- oh oh oh to touch and feel very green vegetables and herbs
(Most others are equally vulgar.)
History
- English and British Monarchs: this poem has been used by English schoolchildren
| Willie Willie Harry Stee
| (William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen)
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| Harry Dick John Harry three;
| (Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III)
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| One two three Neds, Richard two
| (Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II)
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| Harrys four five six, then who?
| (Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI)
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| Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
| (Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III)
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| Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
| (Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI)
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| Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
| (Mary I, Elizabeth I, James I)
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| Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...
| (Charles I, Charles II, James II)
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| Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
| (William III, Mary II, Anne)
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| Georges four, Will four, Victoria;
| (George I, George II , George III , George IV , William IV , Victoria )
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| Edward seven next, and then
| (Edward VII)
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| Came George the fifth in nineteen-ten;
| (George V)
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| Ned the eighth soon abdicated
| (Edward VIII)
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| Then George six was coronated;
| (George VI)
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| After which Elizabeth
| (Elizabeth II)
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| Has the throne, until her death
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Miscellaneous
- Order of the suits in bridge (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs)
- Resistor color code (black = 0, blue = 1, red = 2, etc.)
- bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls
- The number of days in each Month in the year is often remembered using the following verse:
- Thirty days hath September,
- April June and November,
- All the rest have thirty-one,
- Except February has twenty-eight.
- (sometimes September and November are interchanged). A more complete version goes something like:
- Thirty days hath September,
- April June and November,
- All the rest have thirty-one,
- Except February alone,
- Which has eight and a score,
- Until leap year gives it one more.
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