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In article <11451@hogg.ed.ac.uk> guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
<kate@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Kate Jeffery) writes:
<>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...)
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<Oh God -- those "wrong way round" ones are more trouble than they're worth.

True -- unless you have a submnemonic to help you remember whether the
chief mnemonic is "wrong".

<  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 Bulgarian moon mnemonic on the other hand is a "straight" one:
when the moon is like a "C", it _slabee_ `becomes slender, loses weight',
and when it is like a "D", it _debelee_ `becomes fat, gains weight'.
(Some familiarity with the Cyrillic alphabet is needed for the first part.)

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