An earlier article is about acrostics and how a sentence can be turned into a string of digits by treating each word as a number. This article is about treating each word as a 2 digit number; and about other applications of this system of over 100 words. If words generally mean 2 digits each then shorter sentences can express quite long numbers.

Note: If a sentence uses a person's name then treat each word of the name as a single digit. Eg. Paul begins with P; in the 0-9 article, P means the digit 5. Another example: Ch means 1 in the 0-9 article. So, Charles equals 1 because it begins: CH.

Here is a list of words where they indicate markers through a dictionary. It starts with 'A' and ends with 'Z'. If I make an acrostic using a word that occurs between the 'A' and [before] the second marker ['Acupuncture'] then assume that the word represents the two digits '01'. Eg. 'About', 'Achieve', 'Abysmal'. If you can not think of a dictionary word to represent '01' then use a person name to represent the 0 and the 1. Eg. Brian Lara is B=0, L=1.

As an extra tool, you can use the first letters of a place name to mean a 1 digit number. Eg. Brighton begins with B. So it means 0 according to the 0-9 article.

A related way of memorising numbers in sequence is to use a loci [peg] system such as the BLOKES system; but each of the words from this list below would have an image that you could imagine at each location. So, running through the list of places, you would recall each icon image in sequence and then interpret it as a two digit number.

I decided upon some colour fill rules for those icons if I want to use the fill colour of an object as a clue to a third letter. :

O, I, A, E, U, N, R, S, C, T, L, H can all use their fill colours from the Colours article. I can use the 'Acupuncture' icon to prompt the word 'Acre' ecause they start with the same two letters: So, even if an icon is "Acupuncture", we can still use the Acupuncture pin icon to prompt "ACR" of "Acre" by filling the pin with the R colour: red. So, the first two letters don't change but the third letter of 'Acupuncture' will change.

If the third letter is none of those choices then fill with pink.

If the word being memorised does not share the same first two letters of one of the 100 icons then use the A to Z icons from the AA to ZZ article and colour fill those to represent a second letter. E.g. The 'E' letter has icon 'Eagle'; if i want to prompt 'Effervescent' then I can't use a 100 icon that begins 'EF'; so I resort to using the 'Eagle' and colour filling it with the colour for 'F' which is a shade of red from the Colours article. In that way, at least 'Ef...' of 'Effervescent' is prompted.

So, there is more variety to the colour fills of the A to Z icons than I am using for the 100 icons. I could use the full alphabet of colour fills for the 100 icons too - I like the smaller palette though because there is less chance of mis-recalling a colour shade.

See, below, there is a list of 100 icons.

Later, you willl see the AA to ZZ Letters article. Scrolling down that article, you will see that there are 26 basic images for representing A to Z. The colour fill yuo use on them can determine if letter 2 of a word prompt is one of the letters from the colour chart above [assuming you limit yourself to those colours].

The combination of the 100 icons [below] and the A to Z individual icons lets you prompt words well - although you need some revision visits to seal the memory of not just the icon but its colour. For instance, there could be a biology diagram with a stamen; and you want to imagine something next to it to prompt you to recall that 'stamen' is the name of that part of the plant. In the list below, 'stamen' occurs between icon word 'Speckled' and icon word 'Stamp'; so the first of those two is the outline image that you need to imagine beside the stamen: 'Speckled'. That is a canister with speckled spray. But you don't want its 2nd letter [you want the 2nd letter to be 'ST' rather than 'SP']. So you can't form a 3 letter prompt at all. Your next bestoption is to use the 26 letters of the alphabet and use the 'S' icon [which is an icon of a stool. The colour fill for the 'T' of 'STool' is the dark grey from the colour chart [above]. Therefore, a dark grey stool imagined beside the stamen is your prompt that it is spelled with first letters 'ST...'.

Another plant diagram item is the 'stigma'. In the list below, 'stigma' would occur between 'Stamp' and 'Sting'; so the visual icon is the 'Stamp'; but we want letter 3 to be 'I' rather than the 'A'of 'Stamp'; so we colour fill the Stamp icon with the colour that means 'I': orange. That is a nicer visual prompt to imagine beside the stigma because it prompts 3 letters rather than just 2 lettes.

Oddities: Since the AA to ZZ article treats 'SH' and 'CH' as if they are themselves letters, the colour fill of those would be indicating letter 3. E.g. SH is a Shoe icon; so an orange shoe would mean 'SHI...'. Another oddity is that the 100 icons begin with an 'A' icon and that is an alternative choice to using the 'A'icon of the AA to ZZ article. The pink colour fill is for a letter such as 'P' which is not in the colour chart [above]. So, if letter 3 of an icon [belonging to the list below] is 'P' then you would colour fill the icon with pink: you are saying what the 3rd letter is not: it is not a vowel nor L / N / R / S / T/ C / H.

Coloured Icons for Years

An icon can represent two digits. Eg. Thumb icon represents 91. The colours article represents 28 colours as representing numbers 0 to 27; THose colour fills add information to the icon. Maybe the icon is being used to represent digits or maybe it is used to represent a spelling prompt. Some of the colour fills can be about eras but I like the idea that 0 to 20 represent centuries up to the current century which we are in: a leading 20... before using the icon as the year within the century.

Before the first century, how would I represent 110 BC? I would assume that I can remember rote that the time is before 1AD. So I would just want an emblem that means 110 or 0110. So colour fill 1 would be used on icon 10: an orange Boat icon.

Colour 22 can mean "Thousands of Years Ago";

Colour 23 can mean "Millions of Years Ago";

Colour 24 can mean "Billions of Years Ago";

Colour 25 can mean nth Century. E.g. Occurring after a 25, 03 means 3rd century; Occurring after a 25, 10 means 10th century.

Colour 26 can mean "Thousands of Years BC";

I am using rote memory to know if a decimal point occurs. So 3.4 million years ago and 34 million years ago would both be represented by a 23 and then a 34: 23 means millions of years ago; 34 means 34 million years ago or 3.4 million years ago if rotememory reminds me that a decimal point occurs.

Coloured Icons as Name Prompts

Although the colouring in of icons is a way to recall spelling prompts, other parts of this course use very specific images to mean letter pairs; so if you need to recall EF, for example, there will be one hero character who represents 'EF'; so I would probably use this colour fill approach in situations where I am worried about overusing other image assets such as the 'EF' hero image asset.

Hollow Icons

I have plain 'hollow' versions of the icons so that I can colour fill them to mean either numbers or speliing prompts of prefixes:

Hollow Icon 01: A

Hollow Icon 02: Acupuncture

Hollow Icon 03: Alarm

Hollow Icon 04: Anchor

Hollow Icon 05: Arc

Hollow Icon 06: Astronomy

Hollow Icon 07: Ball

Hollow Icon 08: Bead

Hollow Icon 09: Biblio

Hollow Icon 10: Boat

Hollow Icon 11: Brew

Hollow Icon 12: Bush

Hollow Icon 13: Cannon

Hollow Icon 14: Century

Hollow Icon 15: Chime

Hollow Icon 16: Claw

Hollow Icon 17: Column

Hollow Icon 18: Cone

Hollow Icon 19: Contest

Hollow Icon 20: Cot

Hollow Icon 21: Cup

Hollow Icon 22: Deck

Hollow Icon 23: Depart

Hollow Icon 24: Dial

Hollow Icon 25: Doctor

Hollow Icon 26: Draw

Hollow Icon 27: Eclipse

Hollow Icon 28: Engine

Hollow Icon 29: Eye

Hollow Icon 30: Famous

Hollow Icon 31: Feast

Hollow Icon 32: Flask

Hollow Icon 33: Foal

Hollow Icon 34: Fry

Hollow Icon 35: Gear

Hollow Icon 36: Glove

Hollow Icon 37: Graph

Hollow Icon 38: Gyrate

Hollow Icon 39: Heat

Hollow Icon 40: Home

Hollow Icon 41: Hypo

Hollow Icon 42: Inaudible

Hollow Icon 43: Inform

Hollow Icon 44: Inventory

Hollow Icon 45: Juggle

Hollow Icon 46: Knot

Hollow Icon 47: Leak

Hollow Icon 48: Light

Hollow Icon 49: Lock

Hollow Icon 50: Lynx

Hollow Icon 51: Mare

Hollow Icon 52: Memory

Hollow Icon 53: Missile

Hollow Icon 54: Mouse

Hollow Icon 55: Needle

Hollow Icon 56: Normal

Hollow Icon 57: Opposite

Hollow Icon 58: Over

Hollow Icon 59: Palm

Hollow Icon 60: Paste

Hollow Icon 61: Perfect

Hollow Icon 62: Pine

Hollow Icon 63: Plume

Hollow Icon 64: Post

Hollow Icon 65: Present

Hollow Icon 66: Project

Hollow Icon 67: Pudding

Hollow Icon 68: Quarter

Hollow Icon 69: Rapier

Hollow Icon 70: Recorder

Hollow Icon 71: Remedy

Hollow Icon 72: Rest

Hollow Icon 73: Ring

Hollow Icon 74: Row

Hollow Icon 75: Safe

Hollow Icon 76: Sausage

Hollow Icon 77: Screw

Hollow Icon 78: Semi

Hollow Icon 79: Settee

Hollow Icon 80: Shoe

Hollow Icon 81: Siren

Hollow Icon 82: Smoking

Hollow Icon 83: Sombrero

Hollow Icon 84: Speckled

Hollow Icon 85: Stamp

Hollow Icon 86: Sting

Hollow Icon 87: Strum

Hollow Icon 88: Sum

Hollow Icon 89: Swing

Hollow Icon 90: Tambourine

Hollow Icon 91: Tent

Hollow Icon 92: Thumb

Hollow Icon 93: Top

Hollow Icon 94: Trap

Hollow Icon 95: Trod

Hollow Icon 96: Udder

Hollow Icon 97: Understand

Hollow Icon 98: Vapour

Hollow Icon 99: Viral

Hollow Icon 00: Well - Z words

Double Digit Adjectives

I see further uses of the 100 icons. Eg. 100 adjectives where a single word describing a person or place implies two digits:

Note: The middle column is not adjectives but a reminder of the boundaries between spelling prompts: the same words as in the list you saw earlier in this article; the far right column contains the adjectives.

Note: Items 0 to 9 can be thought of as items 00 to 09.

An example of using the adjectives could be that 1 to 31 are days in a month and 41 to 52 are months January to December. So two adjectives could represent your friend's birthday. Eg. If Jack has 28 September as his birthday then use adjective 28 and adjective 49: Enthusiastic Loud Jack (even if Jack is not really like that).

What if an important treaty happened on that date? You could still use "Enthusiastic Loud.." to describe the treaty even though it is nonsense text: it might still be a lot more memorable than the direct calendar date itself.

A single adjective could imply a year (not the century though). Eg. If the London police force was founded in 1829 then the adjective for 29 could be used: "Fabulous police".

A nice way to learn the adjectives is to apply them to each of the people from the article about people 00 to 99. Boris is person 00. The 00 adjective is "Young". So I could learn "Young Boris" as a phrase. Then, when I need to use an adjective for 00, I could think of Boris and be prompted the word "Young"; and then use the adjective "Young".

(Another approach for dates is to have a visual image for each date from 1st January to 31st December. See the Ancient Greece article.)