Your Favorite Mnemonics? (RePost)

Question

I don't know about y'all, but I regularly use memory devices, mnemonics, to help me remember vocab. words.

In an effort to find the 'stickiness' in words that we might find difficult, I am interested in hearing some of your favorite ways that you remember certain choice words.

Let's try for words that can be generalized to most people (e.g. arco iris = rainbow: because it's an arc and the flower Iris can have many colors) and not specific (e.g. sordo = deaf: because I have a disabled friend, who once spoke interestingly about the deaf community, and he used to bake sourdough bread... - really, that's mine, but not very transferable to others.)

So what have you got? (pictures encouraged!)

Here are a few of mine (it seems to work well to have the same format for all posts, so here it is):

1.) La Nevera = refrigerator (because I NEVER Allow food to go bad, so I pack it up, put it in the refrigerator for another day.)

2.) La Merienda = afternoon snack (because it is a 'merry end a' the day

and

3.) El Anden = platform (because you walk 'andar' onto a platform)

Answer 1

I know a boy called Toby - to remember 'tobillo' I used to say to myself - 'Toby's ankle', otherwise I'd sometimes say 'rodilla' instead.

So I am not alone in sometimes getting ankle and knee confused... if I only had a Toby in my life. - yahvey_hoffman, Mar 6, 2011

I think of Rodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, which is about knee-high if Africa was a person. I can't pretend to be educated, it's where Leonardo Di Caprio was from in Blood Diamond! - rabbitwho, Mar 6, 2011