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Some Pegs for Emergencies 99
F — effort (or effer- S — ass
vescent) T — tea
G — jean (or Gee, U — ewe
command to horse) V — veal
H — ache W — Waterloo
I — eye X — eggs
J — jail Y — wine
K — cake Z — zebra
L — el (elevated train)
M — ham
If you go over this list once or twice, you'll have it. De-
cide on a picture for each one, and use that all the time.
Now you have a list which will enable you to memorize up
to twenty-six objects. For "B," I used "bean" only because
"bee" would conflict with your basic peg word for #9. Of
course, there are other words that can fit for some letters,
and you can use any that you like. Just be sure that they
do not conflict with your basic list of pegs. The words listed
above are the ones that I use.
Incidentally, if you made a link from zebra to ape, you
would be able to recite the alphabet backwards, which is
quite a feat in itself. If you want to, you can associate each
letter word to your regular peg word for that particular num-
ber. In this way you would know the numerical position of
each letter immediately:—ape to "tie"; bean to "Noah";
sea to "ma," and dean to "rye," etc.
Another idea I use is to make a list of nouns, each of
which look like the number they represent. You can do this
with many numbers, and for those that you can't, you can
make up any picture to remind you of it. For #1, you
might picture a pencil, because a pencil standing upright
looks like the numeral one. For #2, you can picture a swan;
a swan on a lake is shaped something like the numeral
two. I usually picture a three leaf clover for #3. A table
or chair, or anything with four legs can represent #4. For