Stalagmite vs stalactite?

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            From:  "ladyramkin2000" <ladyramkin2000 at yahoo.co.uk> 
            Date:  Mon Jul 19, 2004  5:46 pm 
            Subject:  Re: Stalagmite vs stalactite?

           
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            An easy way to remember the difference is to think:
            Up go the mites and down go the tights.

            Sylvia (who agrees it is just a little bit of whimsy, with no special
            significance)


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      From:  "Janet Anderson" <norek_archives2 at hotmail.com> 
      Date:  Mon Jul 19, 2004  7:49 pm 
      Subject:  RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: Stalagmites & stalagtites?

     
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      "Matt" <hpfanmatt at gmx.net> said:

      >Janet Anderson points out that the usual mnemonic (in English) turns
      >on the 6th letter -- "stala(g)mite" <==> ground; "stala(c)tite" <==>
      >ceiling.

      That was mrslestrange, not me:

      "mrslestrange" <elizabethleclerc at hotmail.com> observed:

      >By the way, I learned the trick:
      >stalaGmites come out of the Ground
      >stalaCtites come out of the Ceiling

      What I said was: "A stalactite sticks tight to the ceiling." It isn't the
      letter C that's the mnemonic in this case, but the matching sounds of
      stalac*tite* and *tight.*


      Janet Anderson

     


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