@Tacroy said:
@Sutherlands said:
If you have trouble memorizing the precedence rules for any language, here is an easy pneumonic to remember them by:
Multiply/Divide comes before Add/Subtract.
Use parenthesis for everything else.
First, that's not pneumonic at all, you probably meant mnemonic.
Beat me to it. How did that bit of confusion get started? I've heard it more and more in the last few years. My best guess is that somebody saw a (poor) phonetic spelling of "mnemonic," maybe written as "nuh-mon-ik" and thought that "nuh" should be pronounced "new." I remember a similar thing happening in 6th grade, when some moron tried to convince me that the Greek queen of the gods was called "Heru" on the basis of a "hair-uh" phonetic spelling.
Either that, or people were so traumatized by Johnny Mnemonic that they can no longer pronounce the word correctly.