On 20 February 2014 09:49, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:

> So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten
> phrases in Evernote [1] - you know the ones I am talking about, the ones
> that are perpetually on the "tip of your tongue" and drive you to
> distraction trying to remember them, usually because you remember a
> similar phrase and your internal search terminates at the false
> positive. :-\
>
> I thought it might be interesting to put out my list and ask the list:
> what are *your* easily forgotten phrases?
>
> Empirical
> Tabasco
> Hasselblad
> Dunning Kruger effect
> Dunbar  number
> Ambergris
> Sapir-Whorf
> Fermi Problem
>
>
I always forget the hyphenated ones more, like Baader-Meinhof.

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