Thirty Days Has September by Christopher Stevens

Carbunculus meant a small lump of coal, and that brings us to diamonds and all other gemstones: a carbuncle stone is any gem with a fiery colour. Stevens applied the “ Test” to his latest book, Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language, and reported the following: From page 99: The Romans referred to both coal and charcoal as carbo, from kar. Stevens worked at the Observer for fifteen years before moving to the Daily Mail. His runaway bestselling mnemonics book Thirty Days Has September hit the number-one reference book spot on Amazon.

We Just Like Rushmore (an easy way to remember the presidents at Mount Rushmore – Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt).Christopher Stevens is a writer and journalist. (the planets in order of their distance from the sun – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) OR My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles. I would venture to guess that the reader may find something that stays with him forever. Certainly there are far too many little rhymes for anyone to remember, but, nonetheless they make for entertaining reading. There are chapters on spelling, history, geography and math. This book is chock full of little tricks and mnemonics (memory devices) to help someone (me!) remember useful bits of information. So, of course I was drawn to Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff. I also learned the famous little ditty about the days of the months which I unabashedly admit I still sing in my head when trying to remember how many days there are in certain months. From that day on I have never misspelled that word. A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream.

It was a clever way to remember how to spell the word arithmetic. Way back when I was in elementary school I learned something that was so cool.

Thirty Days Has September by Christopher Stevens