SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 188
Set by Allan M. Laing
Memories are short these days and mnemonics correspondingly more useful. Competitors are asked, therefore, for the usual prizes, to compose neat, rhymed mnemonic verses for any matters which are liable to elude the memory without some verbal knot in the handkerchief as a starter. For example, there are the names of the Quarter Days, the various charges for postal packages, or the meanings of such grammatical terms as asyndeton and synechdoche. No line limit is imposed, but brevity is always a prizeworthy quality. Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked "Competition," and must be received not later than September 29th. Results will be published in the Spectator of October 9th.
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