Here's the list of objects that I suggest you use as ideas for The Major System, which is based on phonemes.
Differentiating sounds/phonemes:
1 - t, d
2 - n
3 - m
4 - r
5 - l
6 - sh, ch, j, g (soft ch, dg, soft g)
7 - k, c, g (hard ch, hard c, hard g)
8 - f, v
9 - p, b
0 - z, s
The list of objects:
1 - Tie, toe
2 - Noah (an old man)
3 - Ma (your mother), ham
4 - Rye (a loaf of rye bread), rue (plant)
5 - Law (a police officer or a judge), owl
6 - Shoe
7 - Cow
8 - Ivy (the plant)
9 - Bee
10 - Toes, dice
11 - Dad, tot (small child)
12 - Tin
13 - Tomb
14 - Tire
15 - Towel
16 - Dish, dash
17 - Tack, deck
18 - Dove
19 - Tub
20 - Nose
21 - Nut, net
22 - Nun
23 - Name (a business card)
24 - Nero (the emperor)
25 - Nail
26 - Notch, niche
27 - Neck, nag
28 - Knife
29 - Knob
30 - Mouse, mace
31 - Mat
32 - Moon
33 - Mummy (an Egyptian mummy)
34 - Mare, moor (a heath)
35 - Mail (an envelope or a mailbox)
36 - Match
37 - Mug
38 - Movie, mafia
39 - Mop, map
40 - Rose
41 - Rat
42 - Rain
43 - Ram
44 - Rower (a person rowing a boat)
45 - Roll, rail
46 - Roach (cockroach)
47 - Rock
48 - Roof
49 - Rope
50 - Lace
51 - Lot (an empty lot), lad (British word for a boy)
52 - Lion
53 - Lamb
54 - Lure (bait for fishing)
55 - Lily
56 - Leech
57 - Log
58 - Lava
59 - Lip, lab
60 - Cheese
61 - Sheet
62 - Chain
63 - Chum (visualize a good friend), Chime (wind bell chime)
64 - Cherry
65 - Cello
66 - Choo-choo (a train), cha-cha (a dance)
67 - Check
68 - Chef
69 - Ship
70 - Case
71 - Cat
72 - Coin
73 - Comb
74 - Car
75 - Coal
76 - Cage
77 - Cock, cake, coke
78 - Cave, cafe
79 - Cab, cob (corn on the cob)
80 - Fuse (an electric device), Face (Mark Zuckerberg, or an image you associate with the word face)
81 - Fat (a piece of Italian lardo/fat, or a fat person of your choice)
82 - Fan
83 - Foam
84 - Fur (a fur coat, scarf, or similar)
85 - File (a filing cabinet)
86 - Fish
87 - Fog
88 - FIFA trophy, Fife (an instrument)
89 - FBI, Fob (a key fob)
90 - Bus
91 - Bat
92 - Bun, bone
93 - Bum
94 - Bear
95 - Bell
96 - Beach (anything that represents a beach, perhaps a colorful beach ball)
97 - Book, Bach (the composer), back
98 - Beef, puff
99 - Pipe
100 - Thesis (a professor delivering a thesis speech), disease, daisies
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Post coming up today on exactly how to extend The Major System...check back a little later.
As mentioned in a few earlier posts I've recently had the idea of extending the Major System.
The Major System is one of the first systems of mnemonic we learn when starting. And it's a brilliant system as it can turn numbers into words, which in turn can be words that are easily visualizable so that we can use them to represent the keywords we wish to remember.
But the second use of The Major system has gone largely unused. And it has to do with using it as a memory palace with its pegs.
In The Major System, each number from one to one hundred is an object that is easily visualized. Each number represents a consonant/phoneme, and words are made accordingly.
By linking one of these numbers to an object representing a keyword you want to remember, you've created a mini memory palace.
The "room" is the number. By linking it (in a mnemonic visualization) to the object representing the number, you've created a mnemonic structure that is easy to recall. By learning all objects from one to one...
