Learning new things....

[OakLeaf]

Keys from my local hardware stores always work. Maybe they spring for better machines, maybe it's just the operators spend more time and attention on them. But that's one thing I'll go there first for, no matter how many things I need from the big box store that the LHS doesn't stock.

It took me years to come up with a mnemonic to remember which pole of a battery to disconnect first from the charger. It's still a pretty lame one (pLus Loosens Last - best I could do), but I absolutely could not remember that without a mnemonic, no matter how many times I did it.

[Zen]

but I absolutely could not remember that without a mnemonic, no matter how many times I did it.

Heh.
The twelve cranial nerves
OLd OPie OCcasionally TRochs TRIG And Feels VEry GLOomy, VAGUe, And HYPOGLOSSAL

[solobiker]

Hey what about..lets see if I can remember this



Some
Old
Hippie

Caught
Another
Hippie

Taking
Opium
Away

[SlowButSteady]

Dang, I just learned that I learned every thing the hard way in college instead of using mnemonics.

[divingbiker]

all the best mnemonics appeal to our prurient interests.

Well, there's always

Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly

or the slightly tamer version

Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
Behind
Viney
Garden
Walls

to remember the colors of the wires in electricity. Flashback to college, whoa.

[Tuckervill]

Ick.

Karen

[tc1]

Bad
Beer
Rots
Our
Young
Guts
But
Vodka
Goes
Well

Obersvant readers may note that is the colors of the rainbow, plus black and brown at the start and white at the end. Sometimes referred to as Roy G Biv, used as a pseudonym by more than one person.

Jesus
Christ
Made
Seattle
Under
Protest
(for Seattle downtown named streets, running south to north)

And as for pilates, the soft i note helps. But not enough. Is it pi-lattes or pi-lats? Pi-lottas? Pinatas?

[OakLeaf]

Americans pretty universally pronounce it Pih-LAH-teez.

But since Joseph Pilates was German... I don't even know how German pronunciation rules apply to an unaccented final syllable like that.

[malkin]

What was the topic of this thread?

[OakLeaf]

What was the topic of this thread?

Same as all the other ones I think

[crazycanuck]

I've learnt that as a future planner one will have to learn to read 185 pages + for Revised local structure plans etc & figure out how to comment on them quickly.. .

*bangs head on desk*

Should you be bored, have a look at the Port Coogee Revised Local Structure Plan. Very interesting for Perth though!!!

Onwards...
A few years ago I thought there was a bridge between Tassie & the mainland

[Crankin]

I finally learned that *a lot* is two words, AFTER I started teaching English.
I never heard of any of those mnemonics. They must be science related .

King Phillip, was the leader of a vicious Native American rebellion that killed thousands in MA in the 1600s. That probably accounts for the variation in the first mnemonic that Red Rhodie stated.
Of course, I didn't learn about King Phillip, until I had to teach a unit on Native Americans of the northeast. And I went to elementary school here, where in the 60's at least, we assumed there were never any Native Americans in Massachusetts.

[Tuckervill]

I learned that the word judgment only has one e.

Karen

[alpinerabbit]

Originally Posted by oxysback
Because "I'm going to do pilates" sounds a LOT better than "I'm going to do Joe."

I dunno. Joe might disagree.

That made me snort ...

[bouncybouncy]

I just learned what horse tallow is...