When I read a word that I don鈥檛 know how to pronounce, I can鈥檛 remember it. Why do I need to be able to pronounce a word for my brain to recall it? (continued)
Garry Trethewey
Arkaroola, South Australia
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Most people who wrongly remember my name, Garry, call me Harry, Larry or something similar. They sound the same.
But a significant number of people call me Greg, which sounds nothing similar.
I have thought about their process: a leading capital 鈥淕鈥�, a middle bit with an 鈥渞鈥� and a vowel, and a final letter with a dangling tail. So I think they are remembering visually.
David Werdegar
Naperville, Illinois, US
As a budding scientist, it was natural for me to hyphenate mono-valent, di-valent and tri-valent.
Never having heard ambivalent spoken, I naturally did the same teaching my first statistics class. The laughter was both deafening and embarrassing.
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