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How were you taught to remember North East South and West?

TriSARAHtops · 2018-03-28T02:19:12Z

Most of my reflecting on my childhood comes in the form of suddenly realising that a certain event was about ten years longer ago than I thought it was, but recently I was thinking about a mnemonic/memory aid that I have vivid memories of being taught in grade one. In case the title wasn't enough of a clue for you, I'm talking about the mnemonic for remembering what order on the cardinal directions - North, South, East and West (it feels too weird saying it in their actual, clockwise order). At my primary school in Australia, we learnt it as N ever E at S oggy W eetbix (which, when you think about it, isn't the best advice ever), but since Weetbix are quite an Australian (and I believe New Zealand) thing, it dawned on me that people in other parts of the world probably learnt it differently - not to mention other languages where the cardinal directions start with different letters. So, I want to know: Did you learn a way of remembering the order of North, etc? If so, what was it? Are there others that people who grew up somewhere else have told you about?

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Hattable says... · Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:19 pm

I,,, actually wasn't taught this? I taught myself to remember which way was West and which was East by recalling how my history books always called Japan the "Empire of the Rising Sun" (and I knew it was in the East) so boom. And then, I live on the West Coast, so that's also easy. Then I just have to remember North and South in relation to those *finger guns*

But yeah, I really don't remember any mnemonic phrase ever even being suggested to me.

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