Quickpoll for 20th January 2012
Do you use a rhyme to remember compass directions?
Never Eat Shredded Wheat (19.23% - 20 votes)
Naughty Elephant Squirts Water (0.96% - 1 votes)
Yes, different (tell us!) (11.54% - 12 votes)
Nope (68.27% - 71 votes)
Other (0.0% - 0 votes)
Not these days.
But at primary school they taught us "Never Eat Soggy Weetbix" (that's Weetabix for the Brits). It's good advice.
Never Eat Soggy Weetbix
thats what I got taught in primary too 
Errm, no. *NM*
Never eat soggy watermelons. *NM*
Never Eat Soggy Waffles was mine. *NM*
No.
I've never had trouble with North and South, so once I realised that East was the direction of the Eastern Temple in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, I never had trouble again.
Playing video games: it's educational.
Playing video games: it's educational.
No... it's only 4 words, even my memory isn't that bad!
I don't even remember directions being taught in my school. 
Never Eat Soggey Worms *NM*
Never eat soggy waffles
My son said he uses
Never Eat Sand Witches....they may turn you into a toad.
Never Eat Sand Witches....they may turn you into a toad.
How retarded does someone have to be to forget four simple directions? *NM*
I was taught the waffles one in elementary school. *NM*
Seriously, people don't know the four basic directions??? *NM*
Why do you need one? Seriously, I want to understand this. *NM*
I don't need anything for the main ones but I have one for the middle-ones
They have distinct names in finnish, no north-west for me.
It goes Koira Kalusi Lounaaksi Luuta which is dog ate bone for lunch in english. A cookie for any non fin who knows what direction each of those words are for.
It goes Koira Kalusi Lounaaksi Luuta which is dog ate bone for lunch in english. A cookie for any non fin who knows what direction each of those words are for.
I've never used a mnemonic rhyme to remember ANYTHING. My brain isn't wired for it. *NM*
Luuta =nw, lounaaksi = sw, kalusi = ne, koira = se? *NM*
Almost. Two are correct and you have two mixed up.
Want to know which ones or try again?
Almost. Two are correct and you have two mixed up.
Want to know which ones or try again?
For those wondering why this is needed...
... I assume it isn't about remembering the words, it's about remembering their direction on the map: N E S W clockwise. I know as a child I had difficulty remembering which direction was east and which was west until that previously mentioned deal with the Eastern Palace.