Well, today we will consider an unusual topic: 'Memory Aids'. Helping to remember things worth and needed to remember. Could be facts, numbers, events, information or just some data. Of course these aids may not be feasible in all situations, but at least in some. Following are a few examples:
1. Sometimes we may need to remember the 13 original colonies of America.
A memory aid could be: 'CCC NNN MM DPRVG'. To remember sequence CNM and not as CMN, Remember CiNeMa, and for DPRVG 'deprive G'. The 13 states: With above first letterss: Connecticut, Carolina N, Carolina S, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virgiia and Georgia.
2 The names of the 5 Great Lakes in USA: Rmember 'HOMES'. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie and Superior.
3. Changing timings once in 6 months in USA: 'Spring forward' and 'Fall back' !
In spring push time forward, and in fall push it back.
4. Names of nine planets (original) in solar system, in same order as their increasing distance from Sun: First letters of words "My Very Eager Mother Just Serve Us Nine Pizzas". Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,Pluto. If the last is omitted, omit Pizzas. For N make it Nectarines !
5. Some phone numbers are amenable to memory aids. May not be all. For example, a number like 265 7992. I remember it as; 100 less than days in a year, and 8 less than 8000. In some cases such aids can be formulated.
6. In Chemistry Lab tests, one may forget whether acid turns red litmus blue or the other way. I remebered my friend's name 'Akella Bhaskar Rao' ABR which tells me 'Acid Blue Red' !
7. There are two kinds of cholestrol in blood we know. HDL and LDL. One is good and the other bad. To remember which is which, one can remember GH and LB. In the first, letter H comes after G. Good HDL. LB is pound. LDL Bad !
8. If we wish to remember the four cornerly directions NE, SE, SW and NW in cyclic order clockwise beginning in first quandrant, they are (in Sanskrit, Telugu etc); Eesaanya, Aagneya, Nyruthi and Vaayuvya. A memory-aid could be 'Ee Aa Ny Va' the first letters of the four.
In the above paras, various types of memory-aids were indicated. Sure, it is not always possible to have such facilities. Bt in some cases at least, by stretching one's thought and imagination, one can explore the possibility. If asked how to remember the memory-aid itself, well, something at least has to be remembered. If nothing can be remembered, nothing can be done !
Well, don't forget Memory-Aids !
1. Sometimes we may need to remember the 13 original colonies of America.
A memory aid could be: 'CCC NNN MM DPRVG'. To remember sequence CNM and not as CMN, Remember CiNeMa, and for DPRVG 'deprive G'. The 13 states: With above first letterss: Connecticut, Carolina N, Carolina S, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virgiia and Georgia.
2 The names of the 5 Great Lakes in USA: Rmember 'HOMES'. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie and Superior.
3. Changing timings once in 6 months in USA: 'Spring forward' and 'Fall back' !
In spring push time forward, and in fall push it back.
4. Names of nine planets (original) in solar system, in same order as their increasing distance from Sun: First letters of words "My Very Eager Mother Just Serve Us Nine Pizzas". Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,Pluto. If the last is omitted, omit Pizzas. For N make it Nectarines !
5. Some phone numbers are amenable to memory aids. May not be all. For example, a number like 265 7992. I remember it as; 100 less than days in a year, and 8 less than 8000. In some cases such aids can be formulated.
6. In Chemistry Lab tests, one may forget whether acid turns red litmus blue or the other way. I remebered my friend's name 'Akella Bhaskar Rao' ABR which tells me 'Acid Blue Red' !
7. There are two kinds of cholestrol in blood we know. HDL and LDL. One is good and the other bad. To remember which is which, one can remember GH and LB. In the first, letter H comes after G. Good HDL. LB is pound. LDL Bad !
8. If we wish to remember the four cornerly directions NE, SE, SW and NW in cyclic order clockwise beginning in first quandrant, they are (in Sanskrit, Telugu etc); Eesaanya, Aagneya, Nyruthi and Vaayuvya. A memory-aid could be 'Ee Aa Ny Va' the first letters of the four.
In the above paras, various types of memory-aids were indicated. Sure, it is not always possible to have such facilities. Bt in some cases at least, by stretching one's thought and imagination, one can explore the possibility. If asked how to remember the memory-aid itself, well, something at least has to be remembered. If nothing can be remembered, nothing can be done !
Well, don't forget Memory-Aids !
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