Although using mnemonic clues for spelling means that the person is learning one word at a time, these memory clues are just what some students need to master the spelling of confusing words.  For those individuals for whom spelling is not a problem, it is hard to image that individuals would need such elaborate memory techniques or that they can remember what seems to be more than the spelling of the word itself.  The words: limousine, disease, and attendance are such words.  

This week’s clue uses a technique of small words in words.  This technique is useful when there is a common, easily spelled, word in a larger, more difficult to spell, word.   The person uses the small word in the word to remember that part of the word and creates a mnemonic clue to remember the other letters in the word. 

The word disease contains die and seas (di  seas  e).  The person remembers the statement “If you have a disease, you may die in the seas.”  The person writes di        e and then places seas in between the di and the e.