Mnemonic major

system

The major system (also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or
Herigone's mnemonic system) is a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers.

The system works by converting numbers into consonants, then into words by adding
vowels. The system works on the principle that images can be remembered more easily than
numbers.

One notable explanation of this system was given in Martin Gardner's book The First
Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (just Mathematical Puzzles
and Diversions in the UK edition), which has since been republished in The New Martin
Gardner Mathematical Library as Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of
Hanoi. In this, Gardner traces the history of the system back to Pierre Hérigone and Richard
Grey with uses by Lewis Carroll and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.[1]

The system

Each numeral is associated with one or more consonants. (In other words, the link is to the
sound, not the letter. For example, the letters C in "cat", "Cynthia", and "cello" each have
different values in the system – 7, 0, and 6, respectively.) Vowels, semivowels and the
consonant /h/ are ignored. These can be used as "fillers" to make sensible words from the
resulting consonant sequences. A standard mapping[2] is:
 Sounds Commonly associated
Numeral Mnemonic and remarks
(IPA) letters

Zero begins with z (and /z/). Upper case S

and Z, as well as lower case s and z, have
0 /s/, /z/ s, soft c, z, x (in xylophone) zero vertical strokes each, as with the
numeral 0. The alveolar fricatives /s/ and
/z/ form a voiceless and voiced pair.

Upper case T and D, as well as lower case

t and d have one vertical stroke each, as
with the numeral 1. The alveolar stops /t/
/t/, /d/, t, d , th (both in thing and
1 and /d/ form a voiceless and voiced pair,
/θ/, /ð/ this)
as do the similar-sounding dental
fricatives /θ/ and /ð/, though some
variant systems may omit the latter pair.

Upper case N and lower case n each have

2 /n/ n two vertical strokes and two points on the
baseline.

Lower case m has three vertical strokes.

Both upper case M and lower case m
3 /m/ m
each have three points on the baseline
and look like the numeral 3 on its side.

Four ends with r (and /r/ in rhotic

4 /r/, /ɹ/ r, l (as sounded in colonel)
accents).

L is the Roman numeral for 50. Among

5 /l/ l the five digits of one's left hand, the
thumb and index fingers also form an L.

6 /tʃ/, ch (in cheese and chef), j, Upper case G and lower case g look like
/dʒ/, / soft g, sh, c (as sounded in the numeral 6 flipped horizontally and
ʃ/, /ʒ/ cello and special), cz (as rotated 180° respectively. Lower case
sounded in Czech), s (as script j tends to have a lower loop, like the
sounded in tissue and numeral 6. In some serif fonts, upper
vision), sc (as sounded in case CH, SH and ZH each have six serifs.
fascist), sch (as sounded in The postalveolar affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/
schwa and eschew), t (as form a voiceless and voiced pair, as do
sounded in ration and the similar-sounding postalveolar
 equation), tsch (in putsch),
z (in seizure)
k, hard c, q, hard g, ch (as
7 /k/, /ɡ/
sounded in loch),
f, ph (in phone), v, gh (as
8 /f/, /v/
sounded in laugh)
9 /p/, /b/ p, b
h, y, w, a, e, i, o, u, silent
letters, c (in packet and
/h/, /j/, chutzpah), d (in judge), j (in Vowel sounds, semivowels (/j/ and /w/)
/w/, Hallelujah and jalapeno), ll
Unassigned
vowel (in tortilla), the first p in
sounds sapphire, t (in match), one
of doubled letters in most
contexts
ng, n before k, hard c, q,
(2, 27 or 7) /ŋ/
hard g or x
fricatives /ʃ/ and /ʒ/. CHurch has six
letters.
Both upper case K and lower case k look
like two small 7s on their sides. In some
fonts, the lower-right part of the upper
case G looks like a 7. G is also the 7th
letter of the alphabet. The velar stops /k/
and /ɡ/ form a voiceless and voiced pair.
Lower case script f, which tends to have
an upper and lower loop, looks like a
figure-8. The labiodental fricatives /f/ and
/v/ form a voiceless and voiced pair.
Upper case P and lower case p look like
the numeral 9 flipped horizontally. Lower
case b looks like the numeral 9 turned
180°. The labial stops /p/ and /b/ form a
voiceless and voiced pair.
and /h/ do not correspond to any number.
They can appear anywhere in a word
without changing its number value.
Variant systems differ about whether /ŋ/
should encode 2 and classified together
with /n/, 7 and classified together with /k/
and /ɡ/ or even 27 (e.g. ring could be 42,
47 or 427). When a /k/ and /ɡ/ is
pronounced separately after the /ŋ/,
variant systems that chose /ŋ/ to be 27
also disagree if an extra 7 should be
written (e.g. finger could be 8274 or
82774, or if /ŋ/ is chosen to be 7, 8774).
The groups of similar sounds and the rules for applying the mappings are almost always
fixed, but other hooks and mappings can be used as long as the person using the system can
remember them and apply them consistently.

Each numeral maps to a set of similar sounds with similar mouth and tongue positions. The
link is phonetic, that is to say, it is the consonant sounds that matter, not the spelling.
Therefore, a word like action would encode the number 762 (/k/-/ʃ/-/n/), not 712 (k-t-n).
Double letters are disregarded when not pronounced separately, e.g. muddy encodes 31
(/m/-/d/), not 311, but midday encodes 311 (/m/-/d/-/d/) while accept encodes 7091
(/k/-/s/-/p/-/t/) since the ds and cs are pronounced separately. x encodes 70 when
pronounced as /ks/ or /gz/ (e.g. in fax and exam) and 76 when pronounced /kʃ/ or /gʒ/ (e.g.
in anxious or luxury); z encodes 10 when pronounced /ts/ (e.g. in pizza). In ghost (701, /
ɡ/-/s/-/t/) and enough (28, /n/-/f/), gh is being encoded by different numerals. Usually, a
rhotic accent is assumed, e.g. fear would encode 84 (/f/-/r/) rather than 8 (/f/).

Often the mapping is compact. Hindquarters, for example, translates unambiguously to

2174140 (/n/-/d/-/k/-/r/-/t/-/r/-/z/), which amounts to a twelve-letter word encoded by seven
digits in seven letters, and can be easily visualized.

Each numeral maps to a set of similar sounds with similar mouth and tongue positions. For
most people it would be easier to remember 3.1415927 (an approximation of the
mathematical constant pi) as:

meteor (314, /m/-/t/-/r/)

tail (15, /t/-/l/)
pink (927, /p/-/ŋ/-/k/, and taking /ŋ/ to be 2)

Short term visual memory of imagined scenes allows large numbers of digits to be
memorized with ease. Longer-term memory may require the formulation of more object-
related mnemonics with greater logical connection, perhaps forming grammatical sentences
that apply to the matter rather than just strings of images.

The system can be employed with phone numbers. One would typically make up multiple
words, preferably a sentence, or an ordered sequence of images featuring the owner of the
number.

The Major System can be combined with a peg system for remembering lists, and is
sometimes used also as a method of generating the pegs. It can also be combined with other
memory techniques such as rhyming, substitute words, or the method of loci. Repetition and
concentration using the ordinary memory is still required.
An advantage of the major system is that it is possible to use a computer to automatically
translate the number into a set of words. One can then pick the best of several alternatives.
Such programs include "Numzi"[3] "Rememberg"[4] "Fonbee",[5] the freeware "2Know",[6] and
the website "pinfruit".[7]

Example words

Some of these example words may belong to more than one word category.

1-digit pegs
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

noun hose hat hen home arrow whale shoe cow hoof pie

verb sew hate know aim row heal chew hook view buy

adjective easy hot new yummy hairy oily itchy gay heavy happy
2-digit pegs
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

noun sauce seed sun sumo sierra soil sewage sky sofa soa

verb assess swat assign assume sorrow sell switch soak save sob

adjective sissy sad snowy awesome sorry slow swishy sick savvy sap

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

noun daisy tattoo tuna dome diary tail dish dog dove tub

verb tease edit widen time draw tell teach take defy typ

adjective dizzy tight wooden tame dry tall whitish thick deaf dee

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

noun nose net onion enemy winery nail nacho neck knife hon

verb ionize unite nanny[b] name honour[a] inhale enjoy knock envy nab

adjective noisy neat neon numb narrow annual nudgy naggy naïve wa

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

noun mouse meadow moon mummy emery mole match mug movie ma

verb amuse meet mine mime marry mail mash mock move mo

adjective messy mute mean mum[c] merry male mushy mucky mauve wim

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

noun rice road urine rum aurora railway roach rag roof rop

verb erase read ruin ram rear[a] rule reach rake arrive wra

adjective rosy ready runny haram rare[a] royal rich rocky rough ripe

50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

noun louse lady lion lime lorry lily leech leg lava lip

verb lose let align loom lure[a] lull latch lick love hel

adjective lazy elite alien lame leery loyal lush lucky leafy loo

60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68

cha-
noun cheese cheetah chin gem shrew chilli chick chef jee
cha

verb chase cheat chain jam jury chill judge check achieve cho

adjective choosy chatty shiny sham cherry jolly Jewish shaky chief che

70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78
 noun goose cat coin game crow clay cage cake cave cub

verb kiss quote weaken comb carry kill coach cook give cop

adjective cosy good keen gummy grey cool catchy quick goofy aga

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

noun vase video fan ovum fairy fool veggie fig fife [e] vib

verb fuse fight fine fume fry fly fetch fake viva [f] fob

adjective fussy fat funny foamy furry foul fishy foggy fave fab

90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98

noun boss bead pony puma berry bell pouch bike beef pip

verb oppose bite ban bomb bury peel patch poke pave pop

adjective busy bad bony balmy pro blue bushy back puffy bab

^a Assumes a rhotic accent

^b nanny (verb): to be overprotective towards[8]

^c mum (adjective): silent; not saying a word[9]

^d agape (adjective): with the mouth wide open, as in wonder, surprise, or eagerness[10]

^e fife (noun): a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical
groups[11]

^f viva (verb): to examine orally[12]

^g fob (verb), archaic: to cheat; deceive[13]

History

A different memory system, the method of loci, was taught to schoolchildren for centuries, at
least until 1584, "when Puritan reformers declared it unholy for encouraging bizarre and
irreverent images."[14] The same objection can be made over the major system, with or
without the method of loci. Mental images may be easier to remember if they are insulting,
violent, or obscene (see Von Restorff effect).

Pierre Hérigone (1580–1643) devised the earliest version of the major system. The system
was further developed by Stanislaus Mink von Wennsshein in the 17th century.[15] It was later
elaborated upon by other users. In 1730, Richard Grey set forth a complicated system that
used both consonants and vowels to represent the digits. In 1808 Gregor von Feinaigle
introduced the improvement of representing the digits by consonants (but reversed the
values of 8 and 9 compared to those listed above).
In 1825 Aimé Paris published the first known version of the major system in its modern
form.[16]

In 1843, Carl Otto Reventlow (1817-1873) published a mnemonics textbook on a method

similar to Paris' and traveled throughout Germany promoting it.

In 1844 Francis Fauvel Gouraud (1808-1847) delivered a series of lectures introducing his
mnemonic system which was based on Aimé Paris' version. The lectures drew some of the
largest crowds ever assembled to hear lectures of a "scientific" nature up to that time. This
series of lectures was later published as Phreno-Mnemotechny or The Art of Memory in 1845
and his system received wide acclaim. According to Gouraud, Richard Grey indicated that a
discussion on Hebrew linguistics in William Beveridge's Institutionum chronotogicarum libri
duo, una cum totidem arithmetices chronologicæ libellis (London, 1669) inspired him to create
his system of mnemotechniques which later evolved in to the major system.[17]

In the 1880s Marcus Dwight Larrowe, alias Silas Holmes, was teaching memory courses in
the United States based on the Major System using a third alias Dr. Antoine Loisette.
Because he was charging inordinate sums of money for a system which had obviously
existed before, George S. Fellows published "Loisette" exposed (1888)[18] and included all the
material of Larrowe's course which he determined not to be under copyright. The incident
was notable enough to gain coverage by way of a book review in the journal Science.[19] A
well-known student of Loisette's included Mark Twain whose endorsement Loisette used
regularly to sell his course.[20][21][22] Following the revelation that he had not originated the
system, Larrowe self-published his material under the pseudonym Dr. Antoine Loisette in
1895 and 1896 and it was later re-published by Funk & Wagnalls in 1899.[23][24]

In the late 1800s Christof Ludwig Poehlmann (aka Christopher Louis Pelman), a German who
had emigrated to the United States, and William Joseph Ennever created and ran a series of
booklets and memory courses using the system which resulted in The Pelman Schools, The
Pelman Institute, and were generally known as Pelmanism.[25]

Poehlmann eventually moved back to Germany around 1910 where he continued offering his
memory courses and training apparently with a focus on language learning. Bruno Fürst
indicated that he studied under him for a year in 1911. Fürst later practiced criminal law in
Frankfort in pre-Hitler Germany before fleeing, as a Jew, to Prague where he taught at
Masaryk University until emigrating to New York in 1939.[26] In 1939, Fürst published Use your
Head followed by How to Remember (1944), which was later reprinted as The Practical Way to
Better Memory, and followed up with a series of 12 booklets entitled You Can Remember! A
Home Study Course in Memory and Concentration (1946) which all extolled the system, which
he called the "Basic List" and the "Number System" along with other mnemonic systems. In a
1946 profile in The New Yorker, Bruno indicates that German scholar Conradus Celtes
originated the system.

The system described in this article would be re-popularized after 1957 and through the
1980s in several books by Harry Lorayne, a magician and best selling contemporary author
on memory. The most popular of the titles featuring the system is The Memory Book: The
Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play (1974, with Jerry
Lucas).[27]

This phonetic system had another resurgence in the 1990s thanks to the late night
infomercials of Kevin Trudeau who sold a series of tapes called Mega Memory. He also
published a similar book Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory[28] which used this same system with
some slight modifications.

The name "Major System" may[29] refer to Major Bartlomiej Beniowski, who published a
version of the system in his book, The Anti-Absurd or Phrenotypic English Pronouncing and
Orthographical Dictionary.[30][31]

There is a reasonable historical possibility that the roots of the Major System are entangled
with older systems of shorthand. It is certainly the case that the underlying structure of the
Major System has a direct overlap with Gregg shorthand, which was a popular shorthand
system in the late 1800s and early 1900s.[32]

Phonetic number memorization systems also occur in other parts of the world, such as the
Katapayadi system going back to at least the 7th Century in India.

Practice

Memory feats centered around numbers can be performed by experts who have learned a
'vocabulary' of at least one image for each 1 and 2-digit number, as these can then be
combined to form narratives. Learning a vocabulary of 3-digit numbers is harder, because ten
times more images need to be learned for each extra digit. Many mnemonists, however, can
use a set of over 1000 images.

The combination of images into a narrative is easier to do rapidly than forming a coherent
grammatical sentence. This pre-memorisation and practice at forming images reduces the
time required to think up a good imaginary object while creating a strong memorable
impression of it. The best words for this purpose are usually nouns, especially those for
distinctive objects such as those which make strong impressions on a variety of senses (e.g.
"Lime" for 53, as its taste, smell, colour, and even texture are distinctive) or which move (e.g.
"arrow" for 4). For basic proficiency, a large vocabulary of image words isn't really necessary,
since when the table above is reliably learned, it is easy to form your own words ad hoc.

Indexing sequences

Mnemonics often center around learning a complete sequence where all objects in that
sequence that come before the one you are trying to recall must be recalled first. For
instance, using the mnemonic "Richard of York gave battle in vain" to learn the colours of the
rainbow; (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) to remember what colour comes
after indigo, one would have to recall the whole sequence. For a short sequence this may be
trivial; for longer lists, it can become complicated and error-prone.

A good example would be in recalling the 53rd element of the periodic table. It might be
possible for some people to construct and then learn a string of 53 or more items which you
have substituted for the elements and then to recall them one by one, counting them off as
you go, but it would be a great deal easier and less laborious/tedious to directly associate
element 53 with, for example, a lime (a suitable mnemonic for 53) recalling some prior
imagining of yours regarding a mishap where lime juice gets into one's eye - "eye" sounding
like "I", the symbol for Iodine. This allows for random access directly to the item, without the
need for recalling any previous items.

If you were remembering element 54 in the process of recalling the periodic table you could
then recall an image for 54, for instance thinking of a friend called "Laura" (54) in the lotus
position looking very Zen-like in order to remind yourself that element 54 is Xenon.

This is an example of combining the Major System with the peg system.

See also

Dominic system

Memory sport

Katapayadi system

Rhyming Letter Getters

References

1. Gardner, Martin (2008). Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi. Cambridge
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3. Numzi mnemonic search engine (bi-directional) (http://numzi.com)

4. Rememberg online mnemonic search engine (http://www.rememberg.com)

5. Fonbee Mnemonic Major System Encoder (http://www.fonbee.com)

6. 2Know Mnemonic Software (http://www.got2know.net)

7. Web application for the mnemonic major system (http://pinfruit.com/)

8. "Nanny" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nanny?s=ts) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

9. "Mum" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mum?s=t) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

10. "Agape" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agape?s=t) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

11. "Fife" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fife?s=t) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

12. "Viva" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viva?s=t) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

13. "Fob" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fob?s=t) . Retrieved 2015-06-10.

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15. Buzzan, Tony, 1989. Use Your Perfect Memory, Third Edition, Plume. Cited in Hale-Evans

16. History of the Major System (http://blog.artofmemory.com/history-of-the-major-system-1092.html)

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27. Lorayne, Harry; Lucas, Jerry (1974). The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory
at Work, at School, and at Play. Stein & Day Publishing. ISBN 9780812816648.

28. Trudeau, Kevin (1995). Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory. William Morrow & Co. ISBN 9780688135829.

29. Major Beniowski and the Major System (https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/major-beniowski-and-the-

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30. History of the Major System (http://blog.artofmemory.com/history-of-the-major-system-1092.html)

31. Beniowski (Maj.), Bartlomiej (1845). The Anti-Absurd or Phrenotypic English Pronouncing and
Orthographical Dictionary (https://archive.org/details/antiabsurdorphr01benigoog/page/n9/mode/
2up) . London: self-published.

32. The Mnemonic Major System and Gregg Shorthand Have the Same Underlying Structure (http://boffo
socko.com/2014/07/05/the-mnemonic-major-system-and-gregg-shorthand-have-the-same-underlyin
g-structure/)

Gouraud, Francis Fauvel Phreno-Mnemotechny or The Art of Memory (https://archive.org/d

etails/phrenomnemotech00gougoog/) Wiley & Putnam 1845

Lorayne, Harry and Lucas, Jerry, The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your
Memory at Work, at School, at Play Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (1996) ISBN 0-345-
41002-5.

Pseudonumerology (http://folk.ntnu.no/krill/home.htm) Totally dedicated to the Major

System.

University of Amsterdam - Online Memory Improvement Course (http://memory.uva.nl/en/t

raining/memory_improvement/) is an online step-by-step tutorial of the Phonetic
Mnemonic System

External links
 The Wikibook Intelligence Intensification/Memory Techniques has a page on the topic of: the
major system

Software
iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1039240396?pt=117952673&ct=wiki
pedia&mt=8) to learn and practice the major system

Numzi (http://numzi.com) - free web application for converting numbers to

words/phrases and vice versa using the Major System. Covers the English language with
over 220,000 words. Numzi also has an iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id10368
95529) which is a portable Major System number-word converter.

2Know (http://got2know.net) is free Windows software for converting numbers to words

(English, German, French).

Mnemisis (http://mnemisis.sourceforge.net) Another free mnemonic program - runs on

Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

Memagine (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memagine/id460056495?mt=8) iPhone

app that uses the system to teach how to recall a list of up to 100 items in any order

Major System (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/major-system/id617079050?mt=8)

iPhone app that helps you to create your own list of words and practice it

pinfruit.com (http://pinfruit.com) Web application for the mnemonic major system

Major System Trainer (http://www.remarkablemarbles.com/memory/encoding/major-syste

m-trainer) Free personalisable web application for learning the digit mappings, and
encodings for all 1 and 2 digit words

Major System Tool (http://www.joereddington.com/major/majorEncoder.php) Free web

application for converting numbers to words using Derren Brown's encoding.

Mnemonic Major System Module (https://drupal.org/project/mnemonic_major_system)

A free module for the drupal content management system by rolf vreijdenberger - web
based

fonbee Mnemonic Major System Encoder (http://fonbee.com)

dingn.com (https://dingn.com) Training and recall of 1 digit to 4 digits numbers,

vocabulary cards and a deck of shuffled playing cards with personalized favorite word
selection for each number.

LOC Serendipity (https://www.locserendipity.com/Major.html) A quiz to learn the

sound/number correspondences of the Major system by rote. Also available are quizzes to
 learn the top 100 adjective (https://www.locserendipity.com/MS.html) and noun (https://
www.locserendipity.com/MSN.html) representations from 00 to 99.

Other
Mammoth Memory's system for memorising decimal numbers 0-999 (https://mammothm
emory.net/memory/remembering-numbers/remembering-numbers-method-1/examples-fr
om-0-999.html)

Online mnemonic directory for remembering numbers with the major system (http://www.r
ememberg.com)

Memory Improvement and Learning Information (http://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/m

em/0199majr.htm)

MEMORIAD - Official Website of World Memory Olympiad (http://www.memoriad.com/)

Homepage of World Memory Championships (http://www.worldmemorychampionships.co

m/)

Numzi Peg Words (http://numzi.com/numzi/pegwords.cfm) for 0 - 100, with Peg Word

Story

Andi Bell's system for the decimal numbers 00-99 (http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Mnem

onic_Association_System_for_Numbers)

Collection of Mnemonic Devices (https://www.mnemonic-device.com)

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