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Funny shoe Solid tub
Guernsey cow Tough nose
Heavy ivy Ugly net
Idle bee Virtuous nun
Jagged toes Wonderful name
Korean tot X-rayed Nero
Loud tin Yellow nail
Marble tomb Zig-zag notch

Notice that the adjective for the peg word for #3 begins
with the third letter of the alphabet (c); the loth adjective
begins with the tenth letter J, etc. If you make a quick pic-
ture in your mind of each of these, you will know the posi-
tion, numerically, of all the letters! Of course, you can
use any adjective you like, as long as it begins with the
proper letter. If you wanted to know the position, say, of
the letter "o"—just think of the adjective that you used:
old towel. You know that "towel" is #15, therefore "o" is
the fifteenth letter of the alphabet.
You can use this idea, or, elsewhere in this book (Chapt.
#12) you will find an idea of how to use the twenty-six
letters themselves in order to have a list of twenty-six sec-
ondary peg words. You can tie these words to your basic
peg words, and you will have accomplished the same thing.
You will know the numerical positions of all the letters.
Either one of these methods will enable you to use the
letters of the alphabet to a much better advantage. Just
thinking backwards from peg word #26 to peg word #1
will make it easy for you to recite the entire alphabet back-
wards. This in itself is a good stunt, since most people
cannot recite the alphabet backwards, without quite a bit
of effort. However, the important thing is that this idea will
be of use when you're asked to give a numbered row back-
wards^ or diagonally from J10 to A1, or J1 to A10.
After doing this stunt for awhile, you will find that even-