Your best mnemonic?

My favourite was always for the colours of the rainbow - it was a local one as it relates to Ipswich FC beating Arsenal in the 1978 FA Cup Final:

Roger Osbourne Yelling 'Goal' Brought Ipswich Victory

Probably the one everyone knows: My Very Easy Method Just Sums Up Nine Planets

Probably useless now with all those planets they keep discovering ?

It used to be:

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

However, Pluto is now classed as a star so it's been ruined.

Pluto is no longer classed as a planet, but nor is it a star (the existence of another star in our solar system is unfathomable). It's simply a lump of rock and ice, orbiting the sun, somewhat eccentrically.

ETA: That is possibly the driest and most humourless post I've ever written. Let's cheer it up a bit.

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This is so much easier than what i was taught.

Mother Vulture Eats Marvelous Jam Sandwiches Under Nine Planets.

For the rainbow,

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. Taught to me by my House of Lancaster father

Aah yes. But can you imagine the hilarity of a bunch of 11 year old boys when reading it through like this...

My - Mecury

etc to

Up - Uranus...

We were taught that first and then as a school we were taught the second as it was 'local history to be celebrated'!

For the rainbow - Roll Out Your Great Big Irish Voice (WTF??)

For scuba diving buddy checks mine is:

Burger With Relish And Fries

The notes on the lines of a treble clef stave - Every Good Boy Deserves Football

I have read that songs are regarded as the best way to remember information. Think how many song lyrics you have rattling around in your head, which you can recall even years and years later.

I use the "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" one, along with "Richard of York, gave battle in Vain".

I also have a daft one of my Nan's which I still use to spell "Contents" (which was a word I have always had a mental block about spelling) - "Connie Onnie, Naughty Tonnie, Eating Nellie's Toffee Sticks". I have no idea how Nan came up with that, but I've used it for years!

Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs S S I, Mrs S, Mrs I, Mrs P P I!

Cheers Matilda!

haha this!!!

the only other one i can remember is Never Eat Shreaded Wheat...?

Ah, but it does if you cheat even more - Krebs cycle!

There are loads of medical ones, most of which are dirty...

Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Girl's Vagina. Ah, Heaven! (Cranial nerves I-XII)

Two (or Ten, depending on how mean you are) Zebras Buggered My Cat (Branches of facial nerve)

Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle (Bones of the wrist)

Some Anatomists Like F***ing, Others Prefer S&M (Branches of external carotid)

And so on...

He he, how did you get it?

My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwiches Usually Nauseate People?

I knew it sounded vaguely familiar, but I last did biochem a long time ago. I googled CIKSSFMO and it came up that way!

Clever lady. You'll go far ?

I'm probably going to need to actually know it for my next set of anaesthetic exams ?

i know this one but i was taught Every Good Boy Deserves Food! haha

also know - naughty elephants squirt water and big elephants are ugly for the first bit to spell Beautiful!! My school must've had a thing for elephants!!

Ride Out Yonder Get Brave In Victory

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pancakes

Big Ears Are Ugly...to help get the first part of BEAUtiful in the right order

Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move - for the spelling of Rhythm!

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Exits

Some Old Hags Come Around Here To Ogle Andy...

trigonometry anyone?

Didn't have a mnemonic for trig operations and wouldn't have been able to recall them if you'd paid me....until I saw this

I remembered it as SohCahToa but can't remember what it stands for now.

I had this one too!

Also Never Eat Shredded Wheat and Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

For the planets I can't remember for the life of me what it was but I'm sure it involved vinegar!!

Mrs B Mrs E Mrs A U T Mrs I Mrs F U L.

(I had to check this several times to make sure it was right!)

Malt Vinegar Every Morning Just Suppose You Never Pay. Except Uranus is not spelled with a Y.

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Apparently indigo is no longer recognised as a separate colour of the rainbow and her school now teaches Richard Of York Gave Battle Valiantly. Since when I ask you, since when!

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

Something's bugging me... the song is "red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue" but all the sayings are ROYGBIV etc?