Do you remember the notes of a musical staff?

EGBDF and FACE, right?

You remember because your music teacher used 2 mnemonics.

1. Every Good Boy Does Fine (or Deserves Fudge)
2. FACE.

Here is what Wikipedia says about mnemonics:

• A mnemonic device (pronounced /nɨˈmɒnɨk/^[1]) is a mind memory and/or learning aid. Commonly, mnemonics are verbal—such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something—but may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be related back to the data that is to be remembered. This is based on the principle that the human mind much more easily remembers spatial, personal, surprising, sexual or humorous or otherwise meaningful information than arbitrary sequences.

Here, I made up a mnemonic to help you remember how to spell mnemonic:

Mandarin Never Easier: Memorize Only Nominally Ingenious Chinese Stories

Do you think you’ve got it?