Morse code mnemonics

I confess, I'm a geek... I'll learn some random thing for the hell of it even if it's got no practical purpose for me in the modern world.

Here's some morse code mnemonics I found online and memorized ages ago. I have no idea where I found it, I guess some long-defunct web-page. With my best googling skills I can't find it any more. So here it is, I'm putting it back on the web. Happy to amend with any corrections and credit the original source if anyone knows who that is.

 Aim    | in LINE                | .-


 Be-    | -LEA-guered cit-ies    | -...


[C]sea  | WA-ter's SAL-ty        | -.-.


 De-    | -PLOR-ab-le            | -..


 Ea-    | -sy                    | .


 F-     | fi-cient TRAIN-ing     | ..-.


"Gee    | GEE"S HAS-ten          | --.


[H]age  | is a fac-tor           | ....


 I-     | -dle-ness              | ..


 Ja-    | -ded TROOPS NEED SLEEP | .---


 K.     | O. is OUT              | -.-


eL-     | -e-VATE the gun        | .-..


eM-     | -PIRE TROOPS           | --


eN-     | -DUR-ance              | -.


 Oh     | DRY THOSE TEARS        | ---


 Peo-   | -ple KNOW WE'LL win    | .--.


 Q.     | BOATS SAIL the SEAS    | --.-


aR-     | -my OR-ders            | .-.


eS-     | -pe-cial-ly            | ...


 Tea    | TRAY                   | -


 U-     | -ni-on PAYS            | ..-


 Ve-    | -hic-u-lar ROADS       | ...-


[W]     | ma-CHINE POW'R         | .--
(double your...)

eX-     | -CES-es ex-CEED        | -..-


[Y]wise | SOL-diers TAKE HEED    | -.--


[Z]sed- | -ATE RAC-ers rot       | --..

Just for the record, I'm no morse expert. I could probably write/transmit at 6wpm and read/hear/transcript back to alphabet a fair bit slower than that. Maybe I'll write an app one day for improving my speed, the free apps and web-apps I've seen aren't so good at developing your speed at your own pace (typing programs are good at this, you type at your own speed and you are timed, but morse practice programs tend to set fixed speeds rather than wait for you - realistic but frustrating for the beginner).

First post, giving my blog a purpose

Here's my blog... a place to organise my thoughts; hare-brained schemes, current obsessions in music, language, technology, lo-fi anti-technology, dance, whatever.

Til now these thinkings have been in my head or I email myself or they're on scraps of paper randomly distributed through folders or in notebooks... generally lost-ish.

If I've refined or developed my thoughts on a topic to the extent that it's remotely readable and useful either to myself or to the world I'll publish it.

So probably if it's here, it's something I've been thinking about a while. No guarantees that it'll be insightful or entertaining but try your luck.