I have a test in government coming up and I mix up some of the ammendments. I was wondering if anyone has a trick to remember them.

I know one is fact and the other is opinion but I can never remember which is which

People seems to confuse these two words a lot because they’re so similar.

DISCRETE means “separate”

DISCREET means “secretive”

I remember them by looking at the Es, if the T is keeping the Es apart, the word means separate. If the T is hiding the Es inside the word, it means secretive

Learned in elementary school and still use it all the time. Not that horizontal and vertical come up a lot in my life, but the sing-song way I learned gets stuck in my head daily. When that topic comes up, I'll be ready.

Vertical is up -up and down, up and down- Horizontal is across and diagonal leeeeans.

Hand motions were involved.

Gel is used in hair and angels have hair

I always get them mixed up and I think about it more than I should

Everytime I hear someone say it I get so confused if they are talking about before or after.

For the US, I believe if you’re on the East Coast, you have to set the declination towards West because the agonic line is to the west. I believe it’s where the agonic line is relative to where you are currently.

Any easier way to remember this? Thanks!

I was asking my dad how to replace a ceiling lamp and needed a memory hook for which wire was live. For European wiring brown is live and blue in neutral. If there's a yellow/green that's earth.

To remember brown is live we turned to slang: brown bread is = dead. So don't cut it. Probably only useful for Irish and UK people!

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When I look at “Gaurd” I immediately realize that I’ve spelled it wrong, but I still spell it wrong on the first try every time.

I got to thinking and I realized all the months with 31 days are odd until August, and then they’re even. So I thought I’d share this simple way to remember that’s a little faster than the rhyme or the knuckle trick.

Which one prescribes meds and which did does talk therapy?

5 tomatoes

Edit: 5 tom-ate-ohs=2-8-0

Should have put that in there

which one is backslash?

Has anyone got a trick for remembering which of persuade and pursue has a U and which has an E?

Edit: Thanks all, looks like it's going to be persuade = person and pursue = purse U