Did we all learn our North, East, South, West in the same way?

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

(Just taking to an employee who is 23 years my junior and he was taught it the same way).

Any more?

Naughty Elephants Squirt Water

Although her life was long and placid,
She added water to the acid.
She didn’t do what she should oughta,
That’s adding acid to the water.

Not compass but still kinda good for this ageing chemist.

Richard of York gave battle in vein.

not quite universal, but pretty important in traditional music teaching:

FACE – the lines on a stave in the treble clef

Every good boy deserves football/fudge/fruit/favour (EGDBF – the spaces between the lines on a treble clef)

Don’t eat yellow snow.

Not only a universal teaching but also a universal truth.

The Mrs was taught We Never Eat Sausages, but that just starts in the wrong place to me.

Lefty loosey righty tighty. Except with pedals, in which case right is right.

Beer before wine, then you’ll be fine, wine before beer will make you feel queer.

Every Bunny Gets Drunk After Easter

Tight is tight

I never used the mnemonics, I just think of a map of the world. Where America is, that’s the Wild West. Japan is the Far East innit, then where Norway is, that’s North, then South is where South America and South Africa are.

With pedals – they undo in the same direction the wheel would go if you were riding backwards, and do up if you were riding forwards. Easy and foolproof.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

I still do that now, I have a real blind spot with East and West.

Richard of York gave battle in vein

I used to remember the ancient astronomer Roy G. Biv.

A high school teacher once let something slip and then finally buckled under pressure to tell us a resistor colour code mnemonic, though if I repeated it here I’d have to ban myself.

Is there a doctor on the house? Lots of rude medical mnemonics.

I used to work somewhere that sold IBM OEM systems.

In Being Mended, Once Every month.

I’d never heard Never Eat Shredded Wheat til now! Think I just knew north is up, south is down and WE is a word but EW isn’t.

Tight is tight

Too tights’ ****.

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

The Great Hungarian Chemist: Hheli Bebcnof

Teach my classes electrodes and ions using:

PANIC (positive anode negative is cathode) ANION is A Negative ION.

Ooh, ooh,

Trigonometry mnemonic: the volcano Sohcahtoa.

Coming from the West Midlands it went:

Never Ever Support Wolves

Wise words I always thought

Every Alsatian dogs got big ears..

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

But not any more 🙁

trig was always:
Silly Old Hitler
Caused A Havoc
To Our Armies

Camels ordinarily sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak. Early oiling etc etc (can’t remember any more!)

My mum did some shared teaching with medics when she was at uni in the 1950s. They made all the girls leave the room when they did mnemonics – course, the boys told them afterwards anyway.

Only one she could brig herself to tell me was “Oh, Oh, Oh, To TOuch A Girl’s Vagina” – I 😳 ‘d

Every Bad Girl Deserves An Egg

Nope this is the right way … East South West North … 😆

In English -> North East South West.

Well at least both are clockwise but sun rises from the East not North 🙄

If you need to remember how to spell necessary:
Never eat cheese, eat salad sandwiches and remain young.

not quite universal, but pretty important in traditional music teaching:
FACE – the lines on a stave in the treble clef
Every good boy deserves football/fudge/fruit/favour (EGDBF – the spaces between the lines on a treble clef)

Well I’m glad you didn’t teach me music!

My science teachers came up with these…

Riding Of Young Girls Breaks In Virgins
Teenage Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do

Thermistor behaviour:

T emperature
U p
R esistance
D own

Pregnant Camels Can Only Sit Down Carefully Perhaps Their Joints Creak Evenly Or Maybe People Play Hoaxes

I don’t even understand what half of these are mnemonics for…!

Back to the wind.

Don’t want to piss on your trousers do you?

Bad boys rape our young girls, but Violet gives willingly

Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears

toys19 – Member

trig was always:
Silly Old Hitler
Caused A Havoc
To Our Armies

Some of his cards are hearts, the others aren’t.

Samurai – variation on a theme, but that’s still considerably cleaner than ours.