Day Thirty
- Thirty days has September,
- April, June, and November.
- All the rest have thirty-one,
- Except for February alone,
- Which has but twenty-eight days clear,
- And twenty-nine in each leap year.
- This version of the rhyme attributed to Mother Goose.
- WIKIPEDIA shares many other versions.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September#Knuckle_mnemonic
- mne·mon·icnəˈmänik/noun
- 1.a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something.
adjective- 1.aiding or designed to aid the memory.
- Knuckle mnemonic
- The Spaniards, German, French, Swiss, Turks, Romanians, Slovenes, Russians, Greeks, Danish, Dutch and Belgians typically use a mnemonic by counting on the knuckles of one's hand to remember the numbers of days of the months.[6] Count knuckles as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. Start with the little finger knuckle as January, and count one finger or depression at a time towards the index finger knuckle (July), saying the months as you go. Then jump back to the little finger knuckle (now August) and continue for the remaining months.One variant of this approach differs after reaching the index finger knuckle (July): instead of wrapping around back to the little finger, some people reverse direction and continue from the index finger knuckle (counting it for both July and August) and ending on the ring fingerknuckle.Still others use two hands (as shown in the diagram, right): starting with the little finger knuckle of the left hand, proceed to the left index finger knuckle, then (swapping hands) jump to the right fist's index finger knuckle for August, finishing on the knuckle of the right ring finger (December).CAN'T COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES I USED MOTHER GOOSE'S MNEMONIC AND NEVER KNEW IT WAS HER'S AND NEVER KNEW THIS NURSERY RHYME WAS CALLED A MNEMONIC.I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MNEMONIC WAS.I LEARNED SOMETHING NEW TODAY.
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