Question
Recall the ten single-digit pegs (0–9). Can you name all ten in order and picture a story that links them?
Answer
Each single digit maps to exactly one consonant sound, and the peg is a short word built on it: 0 = /s/, 1 = /t/, 2 = /n/, 3 = /m/, 4 = /r/, 5 = /l/, 6 = /sh/, 7 = /k/, 8 = /f/, 9 = /b/.
0 ace · 1 tie · 2 hen · 3 emu · 4 arrow · 5 owl · 6 shoe · 7 cow · 8 ivy · 9 bee
Picture story (follow the scenes):
An ace of spades tucked into a striped tie.
A proud hen in that tie rides on an emu.
A wise owl looses an arrow and the emu bolts.
A flung shoe bonks a startled cow.
The cow blunders into a wall of ivy humming with one fat bee.
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Question
Recall the ten Major-System pegs for 00–09 — the /s/ decade. Can you name all ten in order and picture a story that links them?
Answer
Every 00s peg starts with the /s/ (or /z/) sound (0); the second sound is the unit digit (0–9), so 00 = s·s = sauce, 01 = s·d = seed, and so on.
00 sauce · 01 seed · 02 sun · 03 sumo · 04 Zorro · 05 soil · 06 sushi · 07 sack · 08 sofa · 09 soap
Picture story (follow the scenes):
Sauce drips over a giant seed baking in the sun.
A sumo wrestler trips over the seed.
Zorro slashes his Z into the soil to bury them.
Zorro eats sushi straight from a sack.
Zorro flops on a sofa and cleans his mask with soap.
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