Why rhymes are memorable

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who gave

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classes to Alfonso the kitten but he

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didn't like reading he just wanted

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feeding so he munched up what Lucy had

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written

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Alfonso is the name of my cat now there

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is something inherently satisfying about

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rhyming words isn't there apparently it

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makes our brains really happy when they

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hear the sound patterns that occur in

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Rhymes now we do this a lot in English

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especially to say something in a

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light-hearted way for example holy moly

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there are a lot of examples holy moly is

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an interjection showing surprise now

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don't worry I'm going to show you the

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nitty-gritty the nitty-gritty is the

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important detail we're going to go from

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the itsy bitsy and itsy bitsy means very

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very small to the higgledy-piggledy

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higgledy-piggledy means confused or

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jumbled

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trust me these expressions are the bee's

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knees the bee's knees is an idiom that

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means excellent

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okie dokie let's go

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okie dokie means okay see there are a

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lot of them okay so these rhyming

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expressions are called rhyming

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reduplication and in rhyming

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reduplication we alter the beginning of

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the