May – el mayo

PRONUNCIATION

(Pronounced mah-yoh)

To remember that May is pronounced mah-yoh (mayo) in Spanish, use the following mnemonic:

I danced around the maypole (May) with my yo-yo (mayo).

NOTE: The way Mammoth Memory remembers May is to think of a maypole. See our Remembering Months section.

Please also note that names of the months in Spanish do NOT have a capital letter at the start, so it's mayo NOT Mayo.

In Spanish, all of the months of the year are masculine, so it’s el enero, el febrero, el marzo, el abril, el mayo, el junio, el julio, el agosto, el septiembre, el octubre, el noviembre and el diciembre.

Imagine elephants that take a bath once a month.