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We remembered the trivial names from the first nine linear dicarboxylic acids ( oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, suberic, azelaic, sebacic ) with the initialized mnemonic, “Oh, my sweet green apple pie sounds absolutely swell.
To remember these, we had, “All altruists gladly make gum in gallon tanks,’ yielding allose, altrose, glucose, maltose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose . This mnemonic also yields the correct structures, if one can manage to remember the proper alternations of the Fischer projections used to represent their configurations in two dimensions.
Can we ever discard a good, though unnecessary, mnemonic, or are we forever doomed to have delayed responses as these jingles, on cue, run through our heads?
To be durable without writing the law had to be rememberable, and the lawyer's penchant for repetition comes from an outmoded attachment to mnemonic devices.
Having a mnemonic is no panacea.