Learn Confusing Spellings in Seconds with Spelling Mnemonics
Broadly defined, mnemonics are procedures and operations used to improve a person's memory. It is a method in which the content to be remembered is reconstructed to attach new information with the learner's current knowledge base more easily. This, in turn, leads to better retrieval capacity. Mnemonic techniques are of various kinds include pegwords, keywords, acrostics, acronyms, phonetic mnemonics, spelling mnemonics, loci method, number sound method and the Yodai methods. Spellings mnemonics are devices used to memorize the spelling of difficult words. For example, to remember that the word cemetery has 3 e's, think of a woman shouting 'e-e-e' while walking past the cemetery. In order to memorize the spelling of the word 'because', take the first alphabet from each word of the sentence 'Big Elephants Can Always Underestimate Small Elephants' and form the word. A number of other examples of spelling mnemonics exists, some of which are given below:
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