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Playing Cards 83
are easy to picture, and because they follow a definite sys-
tem. Here it is, in a nutshell:—
Barring a few exceptions which will be discussed later,
every card peg word will begin with the initial letter of the
card suit. i.e.—All the words for the Spade suit will begin
with the letter, "S"; all the words for the Diamond suit will
begin with the letter, "D"; the Club suit—with "C," and
the Heart suit with "H." Each word will end with a con-
sonant sound; this sound will represent the numerical value
of the card, according to our phonetic alphabet.
You can see then, that the word you use must represent
only one particular card. The first letter will give you the
suit, the last sound will give you the value. Let me give you
some examples:—the peg word for the Two of Clubs must
begin with the letter, "C," and must end with the N sound,
which represents 2. Of course, there are many words that
would fall into this category; cone, coin, can, cane, etc. I've
selected the word, "can." "Can" will always represent the
Two of Clubs! Which card would the word, "hog" stand
for? Well, it could represent only one card. It begins with
"H," therefore it's a Heart; it ends with the hard "g" sound,
which represents #7—"hog" is the peg word for the Seven
of Hearts. Can you think of a word for the Six of Dia-
monds? Well, it has to begin with a "D" and end with the
J or sh sound—we'll use the word, "dash" to represent the
Six of Diamonds.
Here are all fifty-two card peg words. Look them over
carefully, and I assure you that you can know and retain
them with no more than perhaps twenty minutes to a half
hour of study. Look them over once, then read on for the
explanation of the exceptions, and how to picture some of
the words. Towards the end of this chapter I'll give you a
method to enable you to learn these words thoroughly.