Mnemonic

For other uses, see Mnemonic (disambiguation).

A mnemonic is a way for people to remember things more easily. For example, the treble clef lines on a music staff are for the notes E G B D and F. Music students are taught to remember this with a mnemonic - Every Good Boy Does Fine.^[1] The first known mnemonics were used by the Ancient Greeks. Cicero said the poet Simonides (c.556-c.468 B.C) discovered the power of mnemonics to help him make visual images so he could remember things.^[2] The word mnemonic comes from the Greek words mnene, meaning memory and mnemon, meaning mindful.^[3]

A mnemonic using your knuckles to remember the long months of the year