Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 21, 2014

Mrs Olson: ’It’s only hard if you don’t know a mnemonic for it Caufield, so that’s your homework for tomorrow.’

Just remember “amnesia” and “amnesty”. Drop the alpha privative and you’re home free.

I see a boy that needs to learn some discipline — by applying the ‘board of education’ to the ‘seat of knowledge’.

My physics teacher pronounced it “em-nemonic,” probably on purpose.