{"id":180,"date":"2006-10-04T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/mnemonics\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:52:52","slug":"mnemonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Mnemonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verses or rhymes used to help you to remember things are known as mnemonics. They&#8217;re sometimes made of the the first letters of a series of words you want to memorise. For example, <em>Richard of York gives battle in vain<\/em> for the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo, violet); <em>Every good boy deserves fudge<\/em> for the lines of the treble clef of a musical stave (e, g, b, d, f), and <em>My Very Efficient Monkey Just Sorted Unused Napkins<\/em> for the major planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune).<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any other interesting mnemonics in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses or rhymes used to help you to remember things are known as mnemonics. They&#8217;re sometimes made of the the first letters of a series of words you want to memorise. For example, Richard of York gives battle in vain for the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo, violet); Every good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}