[raccoonradio]

Once on the Mary Tyler Moore show someone asked Mary what the proper spelling of “principal”, as in a school official, was.
She said (some kind of mnemonic method): “The priciPAL is
your PAL, p-a-l...”

[oh8eleven]

Your "princiPAL" is your pal, is how I was taught back in the day.
Back in the "dark" days of overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers and local/neighborhood schools.
Oh, and 90+ percent graduation rates.