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I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff
Hundreds of Memory Tricks You Learned in the Classroom
"Thirty days hath September..." How many times have you relied on that old maxim to figure out a calendar?
Or how about "Every Good Boy Does Fine" to remember the notes on the treble clef?
These ingenious, practical memory techniques abound in i before e (except after c) with its hundreds of curious sayings. In this cleve...more
"Thirty days hath September..." How many times have you relied on that old maxim to figure out a calendar?
Or how about "Every Good Boy Does Fine" to remember the notes on the treble clef?
These ingenious, practical memory techniques abound in i before e (except after c) with its hundreds of curious sayings. In this cleve...more
Hardcover, 167 pages
Published
April 17th 2008
by Readers Digest
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A friend gave me a series of these books to have a look at. She saw them in a shop and bought them for her son as she thought they may be of use when he starts school and to encourage him to use some old school techniques to memorise.
The book was diverse in subject matter covering English Language to History to Maths/Science to Geography to Religion and highlighted different mnemonic devices to remember lists and dates etc. Because it was so diverse, it didn't really work for me. Generalist book...more
The book was diverse in subject matter covering English Language to History to Maths/Science to Geography to Religion and highlighted different mnemonic devices to remember lists and dates etc. Because it was so diverse, it didn't really work for me. Generalist book...more
Bile from the liver emulsifies greases
Tinges the urine and colors the feces
Aids peristalsis, prevents putrefaction
If you remember all this, you'll give satisfaction.
I found some of the mnemonics in this book to be strangely unsatisfying. (e.g., memorizing a word passage, whose letters correspond to the numbers of pi; if someone asks you to give them the decimal numbers of pi, what are you going to do? write down the passage and then count the letters? surely that's more difficult than just memor...more
Tinges the urine and colors the feces
Aids peristalsis, prevents putrefaction
If you remember all this, you'll give satisfaction.
I found some of the mnemonics in this book to be strangely unsatisfying. (e.g., memorizing a word passage, whose letters correspond to the numbers of pi; if someone asks you to give them the decimal numbers of pi, what are you going to do? write down the passage and then count the letters? surely that's more difficult than just memor...more
Neat little book that can be read in one sitting. It is divided up into the following categories:
1. The English Language
2. To Spell or Not to Spell
3. Think of a Number
4. Geographically Speaking
5. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
6. Time and the Calendar
7. The Sky at Night and by Day
8. The World of Science
9. World History
10. Musical Interlude
11. Foreign Tongues
12. Religious Matters
13. The Human Body
14. Lifesaving Tips
15. The World of Work
16. Other Favorites
Some mnemonics I remembered from my ch...more
1. The English Language
2. To Spell or Not to Spell
3. Think of a Number
4. Geographically Speaking
5. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
6. Time and the Calendar
7. The Sky at Night and by Day
8. The World of Science
9. World History
10. Musical Interlude
11. Foreign Tongues
12. Religious Matters
13. The Human Body
14. Lifesaving Tips
15. The World of Work
16. Other Favorites
Some mnemonics I remembered from my ch...more
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I often wonder, What did we do before: typewriters, computers, internet, google, etc. This little book reminds me--one who graduated from high school with none of the listed technology except access to a manual typewriter only in secretarial training class. We relied on memory gimmicks to pass on knowledge by rote memory. I bought this book so I carried it around to peruse when waiting for something or somebody. It's fun to remember how things use to be. I didn't read every page but it was amusi...more
Cute and fun, but generally rather useless. Mnemonics were at times a bit convoluted and difficult, and topics ranged between the alphabet, numbers, the Seven Hills of Rome, digits of pi, and many other things I will never need to know. But maybe that's my (perhaps lacking?) modern education and attitude taking over.
I think that this book was a good read with lots of interesting facts about maths, science, English, medicine etc. Some of the tips they gave were useful and interesting but most were a bit stupid and hard to remember. Overall the book had good elements and ideas but too much of it was useless information.
This was an interesting book that gave you lots of ways to remember different things and gave you their history which was quite interesting but I found most of the rules or poems and so on was redundant because I already kew most of the things in the book but i thought it was an interesting read.
Subtitled "Old-school ways to remember stuff", this was a very mixed bag. Some old favourites are there but there's a lot of random things as well, and I often thought that the mnemonic is sometimes more complicated than what it's, er, mnemon-icising.
This book is really great. I just picked it up one day at a book store and nearly finished it right there. It's fast reading, there is no story line but it is fun. It is also educational
I did majority of these silly rhymes through out my school days and loved this book ! I remember most of them still from all the catchy jingles and phrases.
Some useful or amusing but most rely too much on memorizing random phrases or are in subject areas that I have no interest or need to memorize.
Interesting mainly from a classroom-nostalgia point of view, although much of it has been proven utterly wrong - even the title phrase!
Tons of the old sayings to help you remember that really do work! I try to let my students in on the secret whenever I can.
This is the perfect little book to help kids remember some of the important things they learn through their educational journey.
A companion to I Used to Know That this is a book of mnenomics for a wide variety of subjects. Useful for students.
Доста тъповати и мозъко-натоварващи начини да запомняш разни неща.
Иначе изданието е много красиво :)
Иначе изданието е много красиво :)
I learned that Colton Joint Unified School District got its SMART goal from a mnemonic.
A gift from Mother Goose,with good rules to remember and ways to remember them.
Light hearted read...makes you remember things you thought you forgot! Enjoyable, fast read.
Love this book. It has a mnemonic for everything from the English language to how to set a table. This will be a fun book to use in the classroom.
2nd Printing
This is a very helpful book. It gives me easy ways to remember things that I normally would have a difficult time remembering.
Fun!
decent book. But none of those rhymes and shiz, I'll EVER remember.
Fascinating! I never realized that there were so many mnemonic devices and for what. There are chapters on spelling, numbers, geography, science, time & calendars, stars & planets in the sky, world history, musical interlude, foreign tongues, religion, human body, lifesaving tips, "world of work", and more! At the end of the book is "Helpful Mnemonics Websites".
Lots and lots of interesting information!
Lots and lots of interesting information!
I got 'I before E (except after C)' as a present, something that I'm really glad about as I would never have picked it up on my own. It was a fun, nostalgic book that I really enjoyed flicking through.
Interesting for what it is, but when you're inundated with mnemonics, there's no way that you can remember more than one or two. A few of the mnemonics were for useful things (converting Fahrenheit to Celsius), but some were a little too far out to be anything but curiosities (the different organs related to excretion).
I wish I'd've had this book handed to me in elementary school. I would've learned so much, so much faster & easier too. Really cool tips. Some I've never heard of either.
Carly gave this book to me for my birthday--it is impressively comprehensive. My favorite part about this book, besides it's cool cover, is the mnemonic for remembering Roman Numerals (because I always get the 50 and 500 mixed up): I Value Xylophones Like Cows Dig Milk.
Very cool! Thanks, Carly!
Very cool! Thanks, Carly!
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