Without looking it up, can you name all the Great Lakes?

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1. I don’t remember ever learning an acronym. How hard is it to remember five things?

2. HOMES

   Huron
   Ontario
   Michigan
   Erie
   Superior

3. Huron superior Erie Michigan Ontario

4. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. HOMES

5. Ontario, Michigan, and Lake Superior. There’s another one I think.

6. Yes. And I thought I could name them in geographic order too, but I got Erie and Ontario mixed up. Whoops.

7. Huron, Ontario, Superior, Erie, Michigan

8. Of course

9. I remembered that we learned a mnemonic device but I couldn’t remember what it was. I got Michigan, Huron and Erie.

10. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario. Helps to live on one of them

11. Erie, Michigan, Superior, Ontario, Huron.

12. Yes. Lived in the US since 1985.

13. Well there’s that big one they call Gitchegumee…

14. Kris, Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, Kylie

15. Yes. I grew up near them though.

    HOMES is the easy way to remember them.

    Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior

16. Gitche Gumee and the other ones that don’t have a great song about them.

17. Superior, Erie, Michigan, Huron and Ontario.

18. yes

19. Sure thing, HOMES.

20. You bet! She Made Him Eat Onions — Great Lakes from west to east!

    However, while I wasn’t looking, they appear to have added an ocean I didn’t know about 🤷

21. Yes

22. Superior, Erie, Michigan, Ontario… that’s all I got

23. She Had Me Eat Onions, in order from largest to smallest: Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

24. I never learned them in school, but I’m a Geography nerd so I know them. I actually struggle with the acronym because acronyms usually don’t help me remember things that well. In this case, I just picture a map of the area (I’ve spent enough time staring at maps that this is easy) and I can name all of the shapes.

    1. Superior

    2. Huron

    3. Michigan

    4. Erie

    5. Ontario

25. Huron, Erie, Michigan, Ontario, Superior

26. Huron Ontario Michigan Erie and Superior I think.

27. Yep, all 4. Superior, Huron-Michigan, Erie, and Ontario

28. Guess it depends on what we call the Great Lakes because it’s not as easy as you think. For example lake Michigan and lake Huron are one single lake connected together at the straight of Mackinac and this actually makes it larger than lake Superior by surface area (Superior has more volume). Another example is lake St Clair near Detroit which some people consider part of the Great Lakes and some people don’t

29. HOMES. Pity the Great Lakes native who didn’t learn that as a kid.

30. Ontario, Urine, Bio Hazard, Flammable, and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

31. Only if I feel like singing.

    > Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

    > in the rooms of her ice water mansion

    > old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams

    > the islands and bays are for sportsmen

    > and farther below lake Ontario

    > takes in what lake Erie can send her

    > and the iron boats go as the mariners all know

    > with the gales of November remembered

32. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

    Left to right except for Huron and Michigan which were swapped

33. Yeah, I’ve always remembered them with:

    SuperMan Helps EveryOne

    It’s the order in which they appear (from West to East) as well.

34. I only remembered 3. Erie, Michigan, Superior.

35. Yes and I’ve been on a boat on all of them

36. What’s with the geography tests lately?

37. Yes

38. Well I live in Michigan. Born and raised in a town on a great lake. It would be embarrassing if I couldn’t. Though I don’t remember ever learning the HOMES thing in school.

39. Yes. I’m not from the area, and probably only know them because I used to teach geography.

40. I know I shouldn’t, but if you can’t name the Great Lakes, I’m judging you. I mean seriously.

41. Yes, of course. I would be shocked if any American adult couldn’t.

42. LOL. nope. 3/5 before I googled.

43. No. I’’m 45 years away from 4th grade.

    Best guess, Erie, Superior, Hueron,?

44. Yes!