Mnemonic Devices

According to Young (1985) - our reading from last week regarding the consequences of Ebbinghaus' work - Ebbinghaus shied away from studying the use of mnemonic devices in his memory studies by creating words and syllables that were 1) said quickly and 2) nonsensical. I found the idea of mnemonic devices pretty fascinating and in my perusing of the Web, I found this site with mnemonic devices FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! It may not help our understanding of human learning in the way Ebbinghaus would want, but we may learn a lot of random trivia...?