My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Wed Aug 30 16:33:50 UTC 2006
On 8/30/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
> From the blogosphere and other sources:
>
> My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums.
>
> Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate Ninth Planet
[snip]
See also my Language Log post from last Friday:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003506.html
--Ben Zimmer
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