"mnemonic possession" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> At 10/25/2013 01:32 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) wrote:
> >M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked
> >letter-I-humpback-humpback-I
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> Is this really more mnemonicable than "Mis-sis-sippi"?!  And one has
to
> visualize the dromedary; otherwise, it would spell "Mississibbi".
>
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Maybe not, yet it is the one that I remember, having been taught it when
I was 7 or 8 or so.  (and you don't have to visualize a dromedary; from
pronunciation, you know there is a "p" and the only question is "how
many?" -- the mnemonic answers it.)

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