Today I would like to share another memory tool that I have encountered.
This is called the “Rhyming Letter Getter”, and is described here.
The post does not give all the rhymes used, so the ones that I use are:
0 : No (“O-No” or zero: No)
1 : Bun (or Uno: Bueno)
2 : Poo
3 : Tree
4 : Door
5 : Knive (deliberately misspelt to make it more memorable)
6 : Sticks
7 : Heaven
8 : Gate
9 : Wine
There are other number:letter systems, but this one is very easy to learn.
If you prefer, or English is not your first language, you may use other rhymes or letters.
The only rules are that each number gets a different letter, and all letters are consonants.
How to Use
If you have a number to remember, transpose the digits into letters. Then throw in some vowels to make the sequence of consonants a word or words.
Acrostic phrases are another option.
The keycode “1489”, for example, might become BDGW, which I might remember as “BaD GeeW”.
“GoW” could be mistaken for the phonetically similar “GoH”, so I opted for the nonsense word GeeW.
The longer sequence 261011 could become “PS BaN BoB”.
“No, No, Don't Take The Dosh, Bank!” is 0043341.
Remember the street but keep forgetting the house number? Remember it as “DaN aP” instead.
As with other mnemonic techniques, the sillier or ruder the words you come up with, the more likely that you are to remember them.