We were taught stalaCtite (ceiling) and stalaGmite (ground).
It’s funny how much thought people put into remembering stalactites and stalagmites. This is like the definition of trivia, nobody actually needs to know these words. When was the last time you were in a cave and needed to differentiate them?
I always heard it as “-tite” because it hangs tight to the ceiling and “-mite” because it might poke you in the ass
Tight to the ceiling and Might grow to the ceiling here!
Stalactites hang tightly. Stalagmites rise mightily. Never forgot it after that.
You should shower less.
That’s better than the one I learned in school: tits hang.
Stalagtites hang on tite. Stalagmites crawl on the floor like mites
I’m 46. I can’t tell you hour long it’s been since I heard these terms. They’re completely unimportant outside of a very niche science (but, not entirely useless knowledge).
The stuff about Nutty Putty Cave plummeted my interest in caves to absolute zero (tl;dr caver ends up trapped upside down and his remains are still there and the cave has since closed, real nightmare fuel and not even the only cave it’s happened in).
I just remember g for ground and c for cats.
Hmm I always just remembered it with “T for top”
“When the mites come (your leg), up the tights go down”. -my 1980’s chem teacher
