INDEX MNEMONICS
Kings of England
Notes in each music clef
Music sharps and flats
Definitions of Sine, Cosine, Tangent
Lengths of Months
Date of Discovery of America
Henry VIII's wives' fates
Alphabet in Words
9 known planets in order from the sun
Order of Roman Numerals
Distinguish between Stalactites and
Stalacmites
Colours of the Rainbow
Great Lakes of the USA
Weather Forecasting
School Latin
Pre 1960
TEXTS
Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,
One, two, three Neds, Richard two,
Henries four, five, six – then who?
Edwards four, five, Dick the bad,
Harries twain and Ned the lad,
Mary, Bessie, James the vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again,
William & Mary, Anna Gloria,
Four Georges, William and Victoria,
Edward, George, then Ned the eighth
quickly goes and abdicat’th,
leaving George, then Liz the second,
and with Charlie next it’s reckoned.
That’s the way our monarchs lie
since Harold got it in the eye!
FACE = order of spaces in treble clef
All Cows Eat Grass = order of spaces in bass clef
Sharps: Farmer Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
Flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Farmer
Definitions of Sine, Cosine, Tangent
Oswald Had A Horrid Old Aunt
(Opposite/Hypotenuse = Sine, Adjacent/Hypotenuse = Cosine,
Opposite/Adjacent = Tangent
30 Days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived (Catherine of Arragon, Anne Boleyn, Anne Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr)
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, October, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whisky, Xray, Yankee, Zulu
9 known planets in order from the sun
Take the first letter of each word: m = mercury, v = venus, e =
earth, etc. (mercury, venus, earth, mars jupiter, saturn, uranus,
neptune, pluto)
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles.
Lucy Can't Drink Milk" (LCDM - 50, 100, 500 and 1000.)
Return to IndexDistinguish between Stalactites and Stalacmites
As mites go up, tites come down.
Richard Of York Gave Battle In VainUpdated 29 April 2013