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The Power of Words

The Peg Method

  What is the pegword method? The pegword method is a mnemonic technique that relies on you knowing a 10-item rhyme to associate 10 numbers with 10 “peg” objects.  Whenever you want to remember a list of items of your choice, you need to find a visual image to associate each item with the corresponding “peg” object. Then whenever you want to remember the list, run through the rhyme, recall the “peg” objects and the visual images you’ve “hung” on your pegs.  This is best illustrated with an example: How to use the pegword method The first step is to learn the rhyme to remember the peg words list. These ten objects form the “pegs” you can later “hang” whatever you want to remember on.  The Pegword Method: you first need to learn the peg words list Then, whenever you need learn a list of items, “peg” each item to the rhyme you just learned, by creating a visual image that combines the peg object with whatever object you’re trying to remember. For example, if you were trying to remember a