Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cae780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd70!cae780!gordon From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: Re: More mnemonics Message-ID: <367@cae780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 18:18:05 EST Article-I.D.: cae780.367 Posted: Thu Mar 8 18:18:05 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:34:34 EST Organization: CAE Systems Inc. Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 34 [Living sacrifice to assuage the gods of first lines . . .] >Here's another mnemonic, but please don't flame about it like they have >over in net.flame > > PAIN is the mnemonic for the four most common first declension >Latin nons that are masculine -- almost all others are feminine, > >They are > Paeninsula - peninsula > Agricola - farmer > Insula - island > Nauta - sailor > > >Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) >(415)932-6900 As I learned it (and without digging into boxes of books to find a Latin dictionary), the mnemonic was PPAIN, for Poeta - poet Perfuga - fugitive Agricola - farmer Incola - inhabitant Nauta - sailor Of course, I last heard that in 1954, so accuracy may have decayed. FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems USENET: {ucbvax, ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amd70!cae780!gordon {qubix, hplabs}!cae780!gordon USNAIL: 1333 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 AT&T: (408)745-1440 From the world of the middle of four-part harmony.