Never assume because it makes an “ASS out of U and ME”

Stala**g**mites are on the **g**round and stala**c**tites are on the **c**eiling. When I was a kid I thought that was going to be much more important than it actually was.

The word “lie” is in “believe”. It’s a good way to remember if it’s ie or ei.

I always pronounce Wednesday as Wed Nez Day in my head. Beautiful becomes B E A yootiful

Huh. I always thought that phrase was more a moral caution about assumptions rather than really being a mnemonic device to spell “assume.” After all, the double S is very common in words like associate, assimilate, assist, etc.

A way to remember the difference between desert (like the dry hot ecosystem) and dessert (after meal sweets) is dessert has 2 S's because you want more of it.

We will be Friends to the End. That way you know the I is first. Dyslexic here!

I spelled certain words with songs like hollaback girl for bananas or FRIENDS by Anne-Marie and Marshmello for friends

The princiPAL (person) is your PAL. The princiPLE is not.

There’s a scene in Matilda the movie that says how to spell difficulty “Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI, Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. LTY” There’s a song, Hollaback Girl, that goes “It’s Bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S” There’s the song Fergalicious that spells Delicious, “D to the E to the LICIOUS” I also grew up in a very bilingual community (English and Spanish) and if you needed to ask how to spell a word, an easy way to get the spelling across without spelling it out would be to pronounce the English word in Spanish.

Extraordinary is actually just extra ordinary. Some one taught me that and it stuck because it kind of means the opposite. And I had trouble spelling it (wanted to spell it extrordinary based on how I pronounced it).

You can’t spell assassin without double the ass and the sin is an old one I saw when I was 12 and thought it was the funniest shit back then

It's not like an official mnemonic device, but I remember learning how to spell "together" because it broke up into "to-get-her" and that's still how I sound it out today.

weird is weird because it doesn't follow the I after E rule

Boo-zee-ness (business)

Two **s**leeves and one **c**ollar are ***necessary*** for a shirt. (two s, one c)

Never FRI (fry) your FRIEND, or that will be the END of your FRIEND.

When I wrote Wednesday, I say “wed nes day” in my head, and I think many native speakers do that- I’ve even seen it joked about on TV.

A dromedary has one hump. A bactrian has two humps. D has one hump; B has two humps. I always remember the spelling of *seize* by thinking of it like other *-ize* verbs (like *visualize*).

ROY GBIV for the colour order of the rainbow There's also one for the order of the planets but I forgot lol

We have a sort of song to remember how to spell Mississippi in America. It’s two tones, the first note of a scale and the sixth, but it’s muttered and not sang. The sixths are said stronger, with more breath. M - i - s - s - i - s - s - i - p - p - i Em-eye-ess-ess-eye-ess-ess-eye-pee-pee-eye 1 - 6 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 1

A few of my faves: Necessary - one **c**offee, two **s**ugars (or one **c**ollar, two **s**leeves on a shirt) Rhythm - **r**ythmn **h**as **y**our **t**wo **h**ips **m**oving Weird - **we** are weird Now if I knew of one for diarrhoea…. Always forget the extra r, always forget the order of vowels at the end…

Only kind of spelling rules, more how to tell which homophone to use RAVEN: Rule, Affect = Verb, Effect = Noun (tbh there are some exceptions, but this will get you through most common usage) Where? There. (Not They're or Their) When? Then. (Not Than)

I wonder why this mnemonic has disappeared? A red indian thought he might eat toffee in church The things we used to say!!

A p*IE*ce of p*IE*

Oh, also, I remember my 3rd teacher taught us to remember latitude and longitude by the direction our mouths would move. looooongitude - your mouth forms an O tightening up and down laaaaatitude - your mouth kind of spreads left and right

20!years ago, a coworker came up with this mnemonic to remember how to spell diarrhea—“dook in anus. Run, run home. Eww, anus”. I haven’t misspelled the word(in the US at least) since.

Discreet vs discrete; in the first spelling, the two e's are together, whispering so they are "intentionally unobtrusive ", while in the second spelling, the two e's are "individually separate and distinct."

“The principal is your pal,” to remember that principal is the person and principle is the idea. StationEry is the kind with Envelopes, not stationAry.

A Rat In Tommy's House Might Eat Tommy's Ice Cream Arithmetic

"There's 'a rat' in separate." That is, separate not seperate. (Of course, auto-correct tried to fix that sentence.)

Double the C Double the S And you’ll always have SUCCESS

I still remember my elementary teacher explaining how to spell tomorrow as "Tom or Row".

**I** like to get compl**I**ments, and to **complE**ment something is to **comple**te it. If it is "descrete," the second e is separate from the first e, and if it is "discreet," the second e is hiding inside.

Big Elephants Can Always Use Small Exits is one I’ve always heard for because

I had a teacher who told us there is a "rat" in separate, and somehow that stuck with me.

Necessary is like a shirt, it has a (C)ollar and two (S)leeves.

This is more geographical, but I always use Disney LAnd is in LA Disney wORld is in Orlando

For desert vs dessert I always use dessert had two s’s because you want a second helping of dessert

Hair vs hare was "**I** have ha**i**r", a rabbit is a hare

Port and starboard - left is four letters long, so is port Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - ROYGBIV, the colours of the rainbow Lefty loosey, righty tighty - for screwing(!) I also recall whether it’s license or licence by thinking of advise versus advice - the latter is the noun, the former is the adjective. I believe this is only relevant in British English

Trees that are green year round are (for)ever green, and the other ones (that loose their leaves)are deciduous.

I forget where I heard it one time, but I love using the phrase "B-E-A-Utiful" and it helps to spell that. Or Business, , even though it's pronounced "Biz-ness", when I spell it i say it more like "busy-ness" and it helps for me there too

Technically this is Latin, but commonly used in English writing: The abbreviations “i.e.” and “e.g.” often get used interchangeably, but they have very different purposes. “i.e” is used before restating a concept in a more commonly understood or simplified way. (i.e. providing definition by recontextualizing) For this I think of the letters as meaning “in essence” (but they really mean “id est”). “e.g.” is used before providing examples of a previously stated concept (e.g. lists, parts, etc.). For this is think “for EGxample” (but e.g. really stands for exempli grata)

["If you put an 'a' in 'definitely', then you're definitely an asshole"](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling) Or I guess you could just remember the related rootword "finite" and that helps too.

The color is spelled grAy in America and grEy in England. The all-time classic is "I before E except after C, and when it says ay [eɪ] as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh.' "

I before E, except after C