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52 Peg System of Memory
help you learn the sounds thoroughly:— Anytime you see
a number, break it down into sounds in your mind. For
example, you might see the number 3746 on a license
plate; you should be able to read it as m, k, r, j. You might
see an address 85-29, and be able to read it as fl-np. You
can look at any word and practice breaking it down into
numbers. The word "motor" would be 314. The word
"paper" is 994, and "cigarette" would break down to 0741.
(The double tt is the same sound as a single t, therefore it
represents #1, not #11.)
None of the vowels, a e i o or u have any meaning at all
in the phonetic alphabet; neither do the letters w, h or y.
(Remember the word, "why").
Before going any further, complete the following exer-
cises. The first column of words should be changed to num-
bers, and the second column of numbers must be broken
into sounds.
climb_____ 6124 _____
butler______ 8903 _____
chandelier______ 2394 _____
sounds______ 0567 _____
bracelet______ 1109 _____
hypnotize______ 8374 _____

You are ready now to learn some of those "pegs" I men-
tioned. I would suggest however, that you know the sounds
thoroughly before you go on to the pegs themselves.
All right, since we now know a certain phonetic sound
for all the digits from one to zero, you can see that we can
make up a word for any number, no matter how many
digits it contains. For example, if we wanted to make up
a word for #21, we could use any of the following:—net,
nut, knot, gnat, nod, neat, note, knit, etc., because they all
begin with the n sound (#2) and end with the t or d
sound (#1). For #14 we could use tear, tire, tore, door,