Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks

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From: Guy Barry
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:47

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kate@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kate Jeffery) writes:

>My favourites are:
>Polythene and positive both begin with PO and it's WRONG!!! (Polythene
>charges negatively)

>and, along the same lines,

>when the moon is a C it's crescendo and when it's a D it's diminuendo
>but it's the other way round. (In the Southern Hemisphere anyhow...)

Oh God -- those "wrong way round" ones are more trouble than they're
worth.  The way I heard it was:

	When the moon is Coming it is really departing
	When the moon is Departing it is really coming

The other one I know is to distinguish between brass and bronze:
"bronze" contains a Z, so it's the one without any zinc in it...

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From: guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
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Subject: Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks
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