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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Acronyms and Acrostics are often used to help people remember specific facts.
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:
To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV
For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets
The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools
The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS
To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed
Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk
The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA
The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:
To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV
For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets
The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools
The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS
To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed
Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk
The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA
The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES
Now that we have learned the Phonetic Mnemonic System, we can use it to memorize long numbers. We have already learned how to memorize the first few digits of pi. Here we will learn how to memorize 150 digits by using a little poem created by A. Loisette over a hundred years ago.
Mother Day will buy any shawl.
3.14 1 5 9 2 65
My love, pick up my new muff.
3 58 97 9 3 2 38
A Russian jeer may move a woman.
462 64 3 38 32
Cables enough for Utopia.
7950 28 84 19
Get a cheap ham pie by my cooley.
71 69 3 9 9 3 75
The slave knows a bigger ape.
1 058 20 974 9
I rarely hop on my sick foot.
445 9 2 3 07 81
Cheer a sage in a fashion safe.
64 06 2 862 08
A baby fish now views my wharf.
99 86 2 80 3 48
Annually Mary Ann did kiss a jay.
25 34 2 11 70 6
A cabby found a rough savage.
79 821 48 086
A low dumb knave knew a message showy.
5 13 28 2 306 6
Argus up my fire rushes.
470 9 3 84 460
A bee will lose life in enmity.
9 5 50 58 2 231
A canal may well appear swift.
725 3 5 94 081
Mother Day will buy any shawl.
3.14 1 5 9 2 65
My love, pick up my new muff.
3 58 97 9 3 2 38
A Russian jeer may move a woman.
462 64 3 38 32
Cables enough for Utopia.
7950 28 84 19
Get a cheap ham pie by my cooley.
71 69 3 9 9 3 75
The slave knows a bigger ape.
1 058 20 974 9
I rarely hop on my sick foot.
445 9 2 3 07 81
Cheer a sage in a fashion safe.
64 06 2 862 08
A baby fish now views my wharf.
99 86 2 80 3 48
Annually Mary Ann did kiss a jay.
25 34 2 11 70 6
A cabby found a rough savage.
79 821 48 086
A low dumb knave knew a message showy.
5 13 28 2 306 6
Argus up my fire rushes.
470 9 3 84 460
A bee will lose life in enmity.
9 5 50 58 2 231
A canal may well appear swift.
725 3 5 94 081
Once mastered, the Phonetic Mnemonic System is great for remembering things. It can be used exactly like the Link, Loci, or Peg systems to form visual associations. These associations work like a mental filing system for the information that you want to learn.
Additionally, it can be used with great success to remember numbers. We have already seen how you can use pegwords to remember numbers, and the phonetic system works in a similar way. It can actually be more efficient since a word can represent more than one digit.
Suppose that you are trying to remember the telephone number 756-1286. Using the phonetic system, we know that this number can be represented by the sounds c+l+ch + t+n+f+sh which you could remember by the words "clutch tuna fish." Similarly, you could remember the first few letters of pi (3.14159265) with the phrase "Mother day will buy any shawl."
Additionally, it can be used with great success to remember numbers. We have already seen how you can use pegwords to remember numbers, and the phonetic system works in a similar way. It can actually be more efficient since a word can represent more than one digit.
Suppose that you are trying to remember the telephone number 756-1286. Using the phonetic system, we know that this number can be represented by the sounds c+l+ch + t+n+f+sh which you could remember by the words "clutch tuna fish." Similarly, you could remember the first few letters of pi (3.14159265) with the phrase "Mother day will buy any shawl."
Here are some words for the first 100 numbers in the Phonetic Mnemonic System. You don't necessarily need to memorize these, but if you plan to use the phonetic system, it would be a good idea to review them and practice making words from numbers and vice versa.
1. head 2. honey 3. ham 4. hair 5. whale 6. jaw 7. oak 8. hoof 9. pie 10. dice 11. tattoo 12. tin 13. thumb 14. tire 15. tail 16. dish 17. duck 18. TV 19. tape 20. nose 21. window 22. onion 23. gnome 24. winner 25. nail | 26. notch 27. neck 28. knife 29. nap 30. mouse 31. meadow 32. moon 33. mom 34. hammer 35. mill 36. match 37. hammock 38. movie 39. mop 40. rose 41. heart 42. horn 43. harem 44. warrior 45. railway 46. ridge 47. rug 48. roof 49. rabbi 50. lasso | 51. lady 52. lion 53. lamb 54. lorry 55. lolly 56. lodge 57. lake 58. wolf 59. lobby 60. cheese 61. jet 62. chain 63. gym 64. chair 65. jewel 66. judge 67. sheik 68. shave 69. ship 70. kiss 71. cat 72. gun 73. gum 74. car 75. coal | 76. cage 77. cook 78. coffee 79. cab 80. office 81. photo 82. phone 83. foam 84. fur 85. veil 86. fish 87. fog 88. fife 89. VIP 90. base 91. boot 92. piano 93. bomb 94. bar 95. pillow 96. peach 97. book 98. beef 99. puppy 100. disease |
Here are some tips on making keywords using the Phonetic Mnemonic System. We have already explained how each digit has an associated sound and that these sounds can be constructed into words. The key here is that each digit has a sound, not a letter.
When a single sound is created with two letters, we only count it once. For example, 'toll' is 15 not 155 and 'tack' is 17 not 177.
When a repeated letter makes two different sounds, then it is counted. For example, 'accept' is 7091.
Silent letters are always ignored. For example dumb is 13 and knee is 2.
When a single sound is created with two letters, we only count it once. For example, 'toll' is 15 not 155 and 'tack' is 17 not 177.
When a repeated letter makes two different sounds, then it is counted. For example, 'accept' is 7091.
Silent letters are always ignored. For example dumb is 13 and knee is 2.
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