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 Never Eat Soggy Weetbix (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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