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Thread #126768 Message #2821613
Posted By: Howard Jones
26-Jan-10 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: Re-entrant tuning: why?
Subject: RE: Re-entrant tuning: why?
Artful Codger, at risk of thread drift, this doesn't explain why "my dog has fleas" became a uke mnemonic in the first place. If you have to learn the tune first, how does adding words help you to remember it? Sometimes a verbal mnemonic can help by prompting the rhythm of the tune (for example, "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fourteen miles" = Soldiers Joy)but that doesn't work for this. It seems more likely to me that it came from a popular song which used the same phrase.