Talk:List of mnemonics

message: I think that the "stalactites - hang low" should be removed as it is not a mnemonic. Cr6564 (talk) 04:48, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. It doesn't look. But it really is. I found it in http://ict4us.com/r.kuijt/en_stalactites.htm. It was supposed to be stalactites and a mnemonic for tights hanging down; As these type of rocks (or mineral) hang down. I have editted it and was at-once pleased only to be shocked to see that the same mnemonic appeared twice. They are at subsections :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mnemonics#Geology and  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mnemonics#Geology_2.Valchemishnu 16:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone please solve this problem. It should be seen either only at the section "Phrasal mnemonics" or only at "middle letter mnemonics".Valchemishnu 16:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove?

message: External link to "list of medical mnemonics" is a redirect to a page selling books about mnemonics (spam)
I agree... so have replaced with a better link.CustardJack
I think I put that link in originally; at the time it was an interesting site but alas, things change.  Thanks for changing it. Uranographer 07:10, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaned

message: restored, since removed from Wikiquote - needs sourcing, which should be possible. DGG (talk) 14:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: restored

message: 'Scuse my mess. A link dump for later trawling and sourcing. -- Quiddity (talk) 02:24, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Link dump

message: When I was in elementary school learning the Presidents up to Lincoln, I was taught  "Will a Jolly Man Make a Jolly Visitor, Harry?  Tyler poked Taylor, Fillmore pierced Buchanan"  which yields  Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan.  Thought this was worth adding.
Is there are a mnemonic for the 50 US states?CharlesTheBold (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:28, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early American Presidents 

message: This mnemonic isn't very good and doesn't make sense. Removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.240.229.3 (talk) 14:26, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "saw and axe" mnemonic"

message: The mnemonic "Ah we soon get old" isn't viable for the correct pronunciation of the Japanese "お" because the "l" in "old" changes it away from the short "o" sound and that's the correct pronunciation for it. The other vowel sounds are right on the mark but this is a bad mnemonic for teaching the correct pronunciation of the short "o" sound.
B0r0a0d (talk) 01:27, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foreign Language section 

message: Now that #12 has been confirmed as Peter Capaldi, I updated the mnemonic. How to punish bad Daleks before many million earthlings truly see CLEARLY.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.49.179.174 (talk) 17:29, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Capaldi? 

message: If editors insist on a citation for every single mnemonic, this article will become very short, and will lose much of its value for readers.  On the other extreme, a number of non-memorable alleged mnemonics have accumulated here that don't seem to be useful at all to anybody.  I suggest that we retain the examples that actually are cited (obviously), but also set a high standard for the uncited ones, namely that they actually be memorable.  Truly clever mnemonics aid memorability, while endless lists of uninspired poorly-devised mnemonics really impair memorization.  Any alleged mnemonics that use non-notable proper names could be deleted immediately, as they are likely to be only vanity scent marking.  Comments?  Reify-tech (talk) 21:43, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

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message: As a way of getting this list to a more manageable size, I suggest splitting off several of the longest sections to their own articles, and Wikilinking to them from here. Good candidates are: Medicine, Music, and Spelling. There already seems to be a List of medical mnemonics article, and most of the stuff here should be merged into it (hopefully getting rid of some duplication). Some of the (scarce) references here should also be merged into the other more-specialized articles.
The article here should remain as a catch-all for miscellaneous mnemonics which are too few to merit their own separate articles, as well as giving pointers to the more-specialized articles. By pushing the more-numerous mnemonics to specialized articles, they are more likely to be scrutinized, evaluated, and given references by subject specialists who are repelled by the overwhelming size of this article. Last but not least, this should eliminate some unnecessary duplication of material.  Reify-tech (talk) 23:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Spinoff articles?

message: is pluto a planet or star? 2001:569:5279:D200:5839:DEDE:5CAD:6C86 (talk) 14:38, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  planets 

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