I don't remember seeing this one proposed, and it hasn't been done yet, so I thought I'd toss it out there and see if anyone wishes to catch it.
Most often seen in the phrase mnemonic device, it refers to a means of remembering something. As I'm a bit of a wag and like to play with words, and I have a particularly thick skull at times, I like to call such things "pneumatic" devices. I have to drill it into my head, so to speak.
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Re: Mnemonic
by Perry Lassiter » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:06 pm
In school mnemonics kept me from many moronic answers!
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Re: Mnemonic
by Perry Lassiter » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:16 pm
PS- Just discovered Alpha Dictionary includes a Mnemonic Dictionary as a hit in its search engine!
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Re: Mnemonic
by Slava » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:39 pm
Care to share? I haven't found it in my attempts.Perry Lassiter wrote:PS- Just discovered Alpha Dictionary includes a Mnemonic Dictionary as a hit in its search engine!
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Re: Mnemonic
by Perry Lassiter » Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:36 am
I entered the dictionary search for limn, and there it was!
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