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160 Telephone Numbers
doesn't matter. What does matter is that it recalls the
exchange for you. I could give you a list of all the exchange
names used in New York City and the exchange numbers
used with these names, and also give you a word that would
represent each of them. I could do that, but I won't. I
don't believe it would help you any. It's much better if you
make up the words as soon as you find it necessary to do
so, instead of memorizing a long list of them.
At the risk of being repetitious, I must say, again, that
the picture created in your mind is something that I cannot
help you with. One word may create an entirely different
picture in your mind, than it would in mine. Actually, some-
times it is not even a word that I use; but a thought. I
purposely used one in the above examples. For REgent 2,
I gave "Reynard" as a word to help remember it. Now,
Reynard creates a definite picture in my mind because
Reynard the Fox was a favorite character of mine when I
was a child. If you never read those wonderful stories, then
Reynard would mean nothing to you. If I had used Rey-
nard in my association, I would simply picture a fox. True
memory would tell me that the telephone number began
RE 2, and not FO 7 (fox). I'm telling you all this just to
show you that even if you can't think of a word to fit a
particular exchange name and number, you can always find
something, even a nonsense phrase or word, to recall it for
you later on. The same thing holds true, not only for phone
numbers, but for anything that makes it necessary for you
to make up a word for an association.
All right, now to go on with the rest of the telephone
number. If you understand the idea of how to make up a
word for the exchange name and number; the rest is easy.
All you have to worry about now are the four trunk line
numbers. Well, any four digit number can be broken into
two of your peg words. If you simply associate the two,