Memorable Mnemonics

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I walked past a store today which put these in mind.
Guess the mnemonic:

  • NGDAIL
  • EGBDF
  • GBDFA
  • ACEG
  • FACE
  • CAJACC
  • NAMI YACH
  • SMHEO
  • COSDCPTJCEOMPPR
  • SMVEMJSUNP

For extra credit, what kind of store did I pass?
Answers below the fold.


Answers:

  • Cases in Russian language: Never Go Downtown Alone In Leningrad (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional. Note: I learned prepositional as “locative.”)
  • treble clef lines: (Every Good Boy Deserves Favor)
  • bass clef lines: (Good Boys Do Fine Always)
  • bass clef spaces: (All Cows Eat Grass)
  • treble clef spaces: (Feed All Cows Equally or the alternative word face)
  • Henry VIII’s wives: (Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine, Catherine)
  • World’s longest rivers: (Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Irtysh, Yamur, Amur, Congo, Huang-Ho [aka Yellow])
  • Great Lakes: (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario)
  • Geographic periods: Camels often sit down carefully – perhaps their joints creak? Early oiling might prevent permanent rheumatism (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent)
  • Planets of the Solar System: Son – Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes.

Want more? See Fun With Words and Memoria Technica.
Oh, yeah: it was a music store.

5 Comments

  3. Resistor color codes: Bad boys race young girls behind Victory Garden walls (black, brown, red, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white)
    (somewhat sanitized)

  4. The only ones I remember learning were ROYGBIV, FACE (I don’t know if I learned a line, just FACE), EGBDF (Every good boy does fine) and ACEG (All cars eat gas). I don’t recall anything for GBDFA. I wish I’d learned that Russian cases one. Might have helped. Or maybe not.

  5. One of the only lines I remember from Russian I is … and I’m translating this phonetically from ancient memory … “Gospodin Professor, razhkezhitziye, prezhalsta, ov predlozhnom padezhye”.
    The prepositional case rears its ugly head again!
    I remember Henry VIII’s wives as “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”

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