| i before e (except after c) | 
 enlarge | Author: Parkinson Judy
Publisher: Readers Digest
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3503
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0762109173
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.14
EAN: 9780762109173
ASIN: 0762109173
Publication Date: April 17, 2008
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Product Description
Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adults.
Featuring all the mnemonics youll ever need to know, this fun little book will bring back all the simple, easy-to-remember rhymes from your childhoodonce learned, fix the information in the brain foreversuch as learning to count by reciting One, Two, buckle my shoe, Three, Four, knock at the door. Packed with clever verses, engaging acronyms, curiousand sometimes hilarioussayings that can be used to solve a problem or cap an argument.
Take a trip back to the classroom, and rediscover the assortment of practical memory aids covering a range of different subjects, including spelling, time, mathematics, history, general trivia, and much more. The information is organized in short snippets by category such as:
* Geographically Speaking: Remember North East South West by reciting Never Eat Slimy Worms or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.
*Time and the Calendar: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have 31 excepting February alone; And that has 28 days clear; With 29 in each leap year
*Think of a Number: Know the Roman numerals by remembering I Value Xylophones Like Cows Dig Milk
*World History: In fourteen hundred, ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, And found this land, land of the Free, beloved by you, beloved by me
The clever verses, engaging acronyms, curious sayings are endless. Guaranteed to amuse and inform, here is a perfect gift for any language lovercomplete with a To/From gift plate.
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 Memory Tricks for Toddlers to Professionals December 5, 2008
i before e (except after c) is a delightful little book that is easy to carry around and easy to read. It is a great compilation of memory tricks useful for all ages - from toddlers (Alphabet, numbers, days of the week) to professionals (science, medical, geographical information and more). I enjoyed reading through the book and reading about many of the tricks I learned as a child and still use today. There were also mnemonics in the book I remember being taught but have forgotton over the years because I just didn't need them anymore. How useful though to have it all in a little book so that it can be referred to if I ever need it in my memory again.
I also enjoyed how this book contained little snippets of background on some of the mnemonics and it also provided advice on how to create your own memory tricks for other things in your life. My 5 year old daughter enjoyed going through this book with me to see what she can gain from it. I already taught her some of the things in the book before we read it, but she learned from the book how to use her knuckles to figure out how many days there are in each month!
Could make a good gift November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Judy Parkinson's I Before E is a collection of hundreds of mnemonic techniques and tips, divided by theme among 16 chapters. The book covers mnemonics related to the English language, for example, and to geography and world history, science, religion, the calendar, and so on. Some of the devices included will be familiar to readers, but not all. Everybody knows that Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, for example, but we may not all be familiar with the order in which the Smart People of Athens lived, that is, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The majority of the tricks included in the book are acronyms such as those two examples. But Parkinson also includes poems and other miscellaneous tricks, like using your knuckles to remember how many days are in each month, or memorizing a poem to remember the value of pi to 31 places, or using Fibonacci number to convert (roughly) miles to kilometers. The mnemonic devices that are not based on acronyms seem to me to be the more useful because they are less easy to develop on one's own. The book is short so it's not very hard to find specific tricks, but its helpfulness would be improved by the inclusion of an index.
Would this book be helpful for the student in your life? Maybe. While some of the tricks included will be familiar, most will not, and everyone could benefit from at least a few of them. On the other hand, no one could possibly need or remember them all. And some are surely more ingenious than helpful: it seems easier to simply remember how to spell the word "beautiful," for example, than to remember the technique suggested for remembering it--Big Elephants Are Usually BEAUtiful. The book, particularly as it's an attractive volume, would probably serve well as a gift for a student or teacher.
-- Debra Hamel
i before e October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i Before E is a charming and crisp review of facts of old days that are important to keep in mind, and then include the necessity of learning new high-tech details for quick recall relevant to todays age that are of genuine importance. It is a quaint delivery that leaves you amused and amazed.
 Wonderful to Relearn the Basics October 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Grammar has not come easy for me especially as we age, this wonderfully easy written book makes it enjoyable to jog and teach us once again the basics. Lots of good information and easy to digest facts, figures, commas and periods. Great book for all ages.
Awesome book September 11, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Made me remember all the things the nuns taught me in school that I still use today!
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