One of my Latin teachers found great amusement in the fact that a local garment shop was named "Sudor"...
Richard Of York Gave Battle Vainly. I just remember the others...
I have always been fascinated by this method to try to remember acronyms or such, using weird non-sensicla phrases. I find it's very popular among english speaking countries, somehow.
Never had that in Frogland...
To me remembering a silly phrase is way, way harder and prone to errors, than just trying to remember the technical info to begin with.
I still remember I had a laugh about that 20+ years ago. When I was in the UK studying EE, one of our electronics teacher, one day drew a NPN and PNP transistor symbol on the board. Then he tried to "help" us by giving us one of these strange phrase that would tell us which symbol is which.... only to get it wrong !
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Can't you just look at the arrow and remember NPN it goes out and PNP well, the other way ? How hard is that ? Plus it's quite logical, thze arrow goes in the same direction as the conventional current flow in the BE junction, so you don't even have to remember anything, just look at the polarity of the junction
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How do I remember the colour code ?
Easy. I still have a recollection about it, somehow it's still vivid.
I was little, 10 yo or so. Was up teh stars by the kitchen door, dad said : "you need to remember the colour code because it's essential. You won't go anywhere and be worthless if you don't know it by heart. Just repeat it 200 hundred times until it soaks in ! ".
So I did that and hey presto, I remember it now !
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I will confess though that I do remember I felt under pressure and panicked I might fail to memorize it, so I admit I DID try to find ways to help me.... at least for some of them.
The firstg 5 colours I had no trouble with, because somehow the colours used, and their sequence, had some logic to it.
Black = 0 because well.... 0 is as low as you can get, and black is as dark as you can get in the scale.
Brown = next in line because it's a little less dark than black.
red / orange / yellow : progressively less and less red content in the colour. there is logical progressing from one colour to the other.
It's for the remaining 5 that I needed some help...I came up with
(Green) Vert = 5 ("cinq" in French) because... " Vercingetorix " I was learning about at school at the time.. VER(t) CIN(q).. getorix. Sounds similar. thanks to Vercingetorix for putting "green" and "five" together in his name !
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(Blue) Bleu = 6 ( " six " ) in French. Because " sky blue ". In french "Bleu Ciel " ... ci-el... " ci " sounds the same as the beginning of " six ". So "sky blue" in French puts blue and six together, cool.
(Purple) Violet = 7 ( " Sept " in French ). Now at that time, my parents took me all the way across France to visit Monaco in the far south east of France. I remember there was a museum there, and outside at the entrance, someone was selling little flowers coated in sugar, which you can actually eat. It's a little treat. Flower is called " Violette ". Vio... lette. " " lette " sounds a bit like " sept ". So "violet = sept "; hey presto.
(Grey) Gris = 8 ( "huit " in French). I could not come up with anything stellar back then, other than it you repeat " gris huit " fast, it sounds like the "GRR -RRRr-GRRRR " sounds some construction machinery or something...
(White) Blanc = 9 ( " Neuf " in French ). This one was very easy, " Neuf " sounds like N - Oeuf , " N - egg " in English. So... " blanc neuf " sounds 99% like " egg white ". !
That's it... still works for me 35 years later
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