never eat shredded wheat

Definitions

Used to learn the cardinal points in clockwise order.

mnemonic

Examples

“Which sentence might help⟳ you remember⟳ that the points of the compass, listed clockwise, are north, east, south, and west? […] Never eat⟳ shredded wheat.”

“The directions are easy . . . North, east, south, west. ‘Never eat⟳ shredded wheat.’ That’s how I remember⟳ them. Just start⟳ at the top of the map and think⟳ ‘Never eat⟳ shredded wheat.’ The first letter in each word begins with the same letters as the directions.”

“So we tried to work⟳ on that, how to remember⟳ that, and you know⟳ with your right hand and your left hand and never eat⟳ shredded wheat and all those little memory tricks.”

“If Lachemi was hiding somewhere it’d be in Ryerson’s equivalent of a sneaky labyrinth: Kerr Hall. You look⟳ around with a strong sense⟳ of direction. Maybe he’s perched on the shiny basketball court in the Kerr Hall gym. Or doing lab experiments in Kerr Hall south. O-or m-maybe he’s in a classroom in the basement of Kerr Hall E-e-east? West? Every hall starts to look⟳ the same. You desperately mutter, “Never eat⟳ shredded wheat,” whipping your head around. You check the compass on your phone and it’s going haywire.”

“Despite the compass part of the body art having been beautifully drawn, the large inking had quite a big mistake⟳. / Never eat⟳ shredded wheat, right? One of the easy ways to remember⟳ the four directions… / Well it seems like⟳ someone may have⟳ missed that class in school as the tattoo artist mixed up the letters.”

“I have⟳ no sense⟳ of direction… I mean⟳ literally none! If someone tells me it’s north I still have⟳ to do “never eat⟳ shredded wheat” in my head to work⟳ out where to point⟳, and even then I’m still generally going the wrong way.”

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