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The word "mnemonics, " pronounced "ne-MON-iks," comes from the Greek word for

memory, μνήμη, mneme, pronounced "M-NAY-may." The "m" is silent in English but not

in Greek, where it is pronounced right before the "n" sound. Though the word is from

Greek, it doesn't mean the technique is Greek. Probably all cultures have ways of

remembering things, and that what mnemonics refers to. Most of the ancient sources

about mnemonics and memory in general come from the Greeks and Romans,

however. The great epics poems of ancient Greece, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey,"

which are over 15,000 and 12,000 lines long, respectively, were completely

memorized by rhapsodes, who recited them before audiences. So the rhapsodes must

have been using very effective mnemonics.

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