What helps you tell the difference between stalagtites and stalagmites?

I always thought it was stalactite with a c and that meant it was from the ceiling. Stalagmite with a g meant it was from the ground. At least that was my way to rember it.

^ I learned the same way. “C” for ceiling.

Me, too.

Mites climb up. Tights come down.

I guess you have to be British.

“Tits”.

I learned it as:T looks like it is hanging from the ceiling and M looks like pointy mountains.

I learned that the T represents descending from the TOP.

Stalagmites is the opposite.

That way I only had to remember one :)

But I’m liking Lucky Guy’s picture representation of the T as well, probably better.

Stalactites have to hang on tight.

I was very young when I thought this up as a mnemonic, but I still use it, even though it’s so arbitrary as to be meaningless. I mean, perhaps the stalagmites need all of their might or something. It’s not terribly foolproof.

I learned it as, C comes before G, so C over G, or C / G. So, stalactites are the ones on top and hang down, and stalagmites are the ones on the ground and grow upward.

I remember the ‘tights come down’ thing for stalactites.

My mnemonic was “stand -mitey and hang -tite”.

How do they say it in German? ;-)

^ “Stalagtiten.”

My mnemonic works for German, too.

^ I thought it would be a word like “Erdevonderdeckegetropften”. :-)
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Basic fundamental knowledge.

@LuckyGuy Made me laugh. Would be typical, actually.

Mites grow up and tights fall down.