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Tilly2 | 10:03 Sun 17th Feb 2013 | ChatterBank
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Following on from my spelling rules thread, do you have any mnemonics for remembering the spelling of 'difficult words?

E.g. diarrhoea:-

Dash
In
A
Rush
Round
House
Oh,
Eeeh!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
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The only one I use is RoyGbiv for the colours of the rainbow
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Thanks for the reply, boxy.
For the rainbow - Richard of York gave battle in vain
Roll over you grizzly bears in vain....
And not really a mnemonic - stationery with an e in it for Envelopes. Two shops near here have stationAry printed on their shop fronts. I suspect they used the same signwriter.
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Right, that's the colours of the rainbow sorted and stationery. Any more please?
Necessary - Never eat cake eat salmon salmon ary
Difficulty - Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs F F I, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs L T Y.
These were 2 from my school days and have never forgotten them.
Another one was the main causes of unconsciousness:
F Fainting
I Infantile convulsions
S Shock
H Head Injury

S Stroke
H Heart Attack
A Asphyxia
P Poisoning
E Epilepsy
D Diabetes
First Aid Checks:
D Danger
R Response

A Airway
B Breathing
C Circulation
My Very Elderly Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies
necessary - one "coffee" two "sugars"
Treatment of Sprains.
R Rest
I Ice
C Compression
E Elevation.
Colour coding bands on electrical resistors - remembered from school days - there are perfectly useful neurons that have been idling around for a lot of years waiting for someone to ask this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code#Resistor_color-coding

We were taught Purple not Violet - so the mnemonic was

Bad Boys Ravished Our Young Girls But Preferred Generous Whores
Again, it's not reallly a nmemonic, but I remember the seven dwarfs liks this...

Two S's, two D's and GBH! Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Doc, Grumpy, Bashful and Happy!
many venetians eat mucky jam sandwiches under news paper
When carrying out just about any task, always observe the 7 P's:

Prior planning and preparation prevents p!ss poor performance.
men very easily make jugs serve useful night-time purposes
some one holy caught a hack to america
It's not spelling but if there's a question about camels and how many humps they have, a Dromedary has one and a Bactrian has two. If you look at D and B, 'D' has one hump and 'B' has two.
You lot will have to come up with a different nmemonic for the planets!
Every good boy deserves favour.

Mrs M Mrs I Mrs SSI Mrs SSI Mrs PPI
MY Very Easy Method, Just Say U kNow.

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