Thirty Days Has September by Christopher Stevens

The letters stand for ‘ Lots Of Love’ or ‘ Laugh Out Loud’. Do you ever sign off text messages or emails with the letters ‘ LOL’? That’s an acronym. You probably use acronyms already without even realising it. AcronymsĪcronyms are made up of initials. The title of this book, for example, is part of a rhyme that people use to remember how many days there are in each month of the year (you can read the whole rhyme here). There are some unforgettable songs and rhymes to make sure that you can always bring a fact to mind. Mum Needs Effective Methods Or Nothing Is Certain. Here’s one that shows you how to spell M-N-E-M-O-N-I-C: You’ll find lots of sentences where the first letters of each word combine to remind you how to spell another word. Some are mental short-cuts, some are catchy rhymes, and there are even some silly jokes, but they are all designed to send quick reminders to your brain. Information is easy to remember when you use every trick in the book – well, in this book actually! It’s full of really useful memory devices called ‘mnemonics’.

Any errors or omissions that may have occurred are inadvertent, and anyone with any copyright queries is invited to write to the publishers, so that a full acknowledgement may be included in subsequent editions of this work.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The version printed here is that found on the website with two additional lines bringing the poem up to date.Įvery reasonable effort has been made to acknowledge all copyright holders. The author and publishers have made every effort to trace the author(s) of the poem, but without success, although slightly differing versions of it can be found on many websites. Since it has to be updated every four years, with each presidential election, it is almost certainly the work of several hands.

‘The Presidents Poem’ here is a recent version of a teacher’s mnemonic that has been used in the United States for many years. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. This electronic edition published in 2009. First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Buster Books, an imprint of Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 9 Lion Yard, Tremadoc Road, London SW4 7NQ

Thirty Days Has September by Christopher Stevens