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USE YOUR MEMORY
The vowels a, e, i, o, u and the letters h, w and y do not have
numbers associated with them and are used simply as 'blanks' in
the Key Memory Image Words you will soon be creating.
To save you the trouble of remembering these by rote, there are
some simple remembering devices:
0 The letter 5, or z, is the first sound of the word zero; 0 is the last
letter.
1 The letters d and t have one downstroke.
2 The letter n has two downstrokes.
3 The letter m has three downstrokes.
4 The letter r is the last letter in the word four.
5 The letter l can be thought of as either the Roman numeral for
50 or a hand with five spread fingers, the index finger and
thumb forming an L shape.
6 The letter j is the mirror image of 6.
7 The letter k, when seen as a capital, contains two number 7s.
8 The letter f when handwritten, has two loops, similar to the
number 8.
9 The letters b and p are the mirror image of 9.
As with the Number-Rhyme and Number-Shape Systems, your
task is to create a Key Image Word that can be immediately and
permanently linked with the number it represents. Take, for
example, the number 1. You have to think of a Key Image Word
that is a good visual image and that contains only d, t or th and a
vowel sound. Examples include doe, tea, toe and the. When recall-
ing the word chosen for number 1, let us say tea, you would know
that it could represent only the number 1 because the consonant
letter in the word represents no other number, and vowels do not
count as numbers in this system.
Try another example: the number 34. In this case the number 3
is represented by the letter m, and 4 is represented by the letter r.
Examples of possible words include mare, more, moor and mire. In
selecting the 'best' word for this number, you once again make use
of the alphabet order to assist both in choice of word and in recall:
in other words, the letters you have to choose are m and r, so you
simply mentally run through the vowels a-e-i-o-u using the first
vowel that enables you to make an adequate Memory Word. The
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