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Women 1000 System

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The first question is: Why have an image for each number from 000 to 999 (one thousand images)?

It is so that one imagined image can represent a three digit number - and that might be helpful for memorising most of a 4 digit history date; or for learning some kind of numeric password.

I made a 1000 cartoon women system where features of the head represented extra pieces of information - and it was too complicated: the principle is ok but the time it takes to learn the bespoke cartoon faces is too long. So I have decided to make a fresh 1000 women cartoon image system.

Each person represents a vocabulary word. Their surame is that vocabulary word. Each person has one of 100 forenames. The forename matches a 2 digit number; so person 123 can have the forename that matches with 23. The choice of outfit will be one of 100 outfit types. Each outfit type will have 10 women nade who wear outfits which fit that genre.

I can use the 50 outfits article and base people's outfits on those categories. So 20 lots of 50 outfits would come to 1000. People 000 to 009 and people 500 to 509 would follow outfit type 00: actor; and as long as the outfit is consistent with an actor and as long as all 20 faces are distinct from each other then that is OK.


See a 1000 words list from a shorthand article.


The women from 000 to 999 (and their matching dictionary word)

Person 000 matches vocabulary word 'Zero'; so I can think of the first woman as Miss Zero: give a surname to each person that is the matching vocabulary word.

I chose particular facial looks for every 20 people of an outfit type. So the 20th person in an Artist outfit will tend to have a similar face to the 20th person of any other outfit type. I did this to help me recall the faces at the risk of making people too samey.

Outfit 30 is a Spaceman outfit. I add a zero to say that person 300 is in a space outfit and so aret eh next 4 people: 301, 302, 303, 304. And I can add 5 to the 300: 305; and say that person 305 is in a space outfit too; and so are 306, 307, 308 and 309. I can add 500 to any of those ten people and assume that those people are wearing space outfits.E.g. Person 800. Every outfit, in this way, has four lots of five people; and I tend to use the same ethnicity for each of the 20 people: 20 standard ethnicities in a sequence for each set of 20 people.

  • 000 : zero , one , line , dot , left
  • 005 : twist , hook , two , lid , man
  • 010 : leg , enter , eight , wide , hygiene
  • 015 : ice , table , bowl , knife , power
  • 020 : wrap , ladle (spoon) , box , hide , ten
  • 025 : foretell , seal , cliff , private , again
  • 030 : mouth , surround , Earth , student (scholar) , follow
  • 035 : slow , evening , big , woman , child
  • 040 : roof , thumb , little , lame , corpse
  • 045 : sprout , mountain , river , work , oneself
  • 050 : cloth , dry , thread , lean , march
  • 055 : arch , shoot , bow , pork , streak
  • 060 : step , heart , halberd , door , hand
  • 065 : support , knock , pattern , dip , axe
  • 070 : square , lack , sun , say , moon
  • 075 : tree , owe , toe , chip , weapon
  • 080 : dont , compare , fur , clan , breathe
  • 085 : water , fire , claw , father , criss-cross
  • 090 : bed , slice , fang , cow , dog
  • 095 : deep , jade , melon , tile , sweet
  • 100 : birth , use , field , bolt , sick
  • 105 : footstep , white , skin , plate , eye
  • 110 : spear , swear , rock , spirit , track
  • 115 : grain , cave , stand , bamboo , rice
  • 120 : silk , jar , net , sheep , wing
  • 125 : old , beard , plough (plow) , ear , brush
  • 130 : meat , bureaucrat , self , arrive , mortar
  • 135 : tongue , oppose , boat , stop , colour (color)
  • 140 : grass , tiger , insect , blood , perform
  • 145 : clothes , cover , see , horn , word
  • 150 : valley , bean , pig , badger , cowrie (a type of sea shell)
  • 155 : red , run , foot , torso , car
  • 160 : bitter , early , walk , city , wine
  • 165 : distinguish , village , gold , long , gate
  • 170 : mound , slave , bird , rain , blue
  • 175 : wrong , face , leather , shoe , leek
  • 180 : tone , head , wind , fly , food
  • 185 : boss , fragrance , horse , bone , tall
  • 190 : hair , fight , grape , cauldron , ghost
  • 195 : fish , poultry , salt , deer , wheat
  • 200 : hemp , yellow , millet , black , embroidery
  • 205 : frog , tripod , drum , rodent , nose
  • 210 : even , tooth , dragon , turtle , flute
  • 215 : line up , speech , correct , choke , feel
  • 220 : conceive , circle , combination , carriage , cold
  • 225 : electronic , centi- , celebrate , ceiling , challenge
  • 230 : check , censor , comfortable , chop , chemical
  • 235 : congratulate , choose , exclude , bounce , bit
  • 240 : bus , busy , brave , elbow , board
  • 245 : break , boyfriend , effort , electric , bore
  • 250 : boil , body , ban , egg , bottom
  • 255 : blow , bright , business , catch , cancel
  • 260 : examine , carry , east , change , clear
  • 265 : fertile , cheek , electricity , burn out , eat
  • 270 : building , build , burn , bite , bottle
  • 275 : calendar , call , decay , creepy crawly , explode
  • 280 : die , computer , data , dance , connect
  • 285 : disadvantage , decrease , cup , find , eject
  • 290 : deserve , chest , conclude , escape , complete
  • 295 : enemy , dare , crack , control , accident
  • 300 : cotton , cost , curve , cube , crawl
  • 305 : era , compete , creep , cycle , error
  • 310 : crunch , equal , cross , epidemic , cry
  • 315 : chew , dig , curl , cut , defend
  • 320 : descend , energy , container , count , claim
  • 325 : fantasy , end , cone , emotion , farm
  • 330 : cool , fast , culture , collapse , disappear
  • 335 : clean , close , chain , communicate , family
  • 340 : character , danger , discard , discover , fair
  • 345 : damage , entertain , doctor , dismantle , drink
  • 350 : differentiate , drop , drain , draw , drag
  • 355 : drug , drama , fall , dispose of , direction
  • 360 : ritual , activate , skeleton , third , shut
  • 365 : contract , tense , bureaucracy , monkey , sincere
  • 370 : six , manners , servant , furniture , whisker
  • 375 : handful , leave (2) , stay , host , lord
  • 380 : climate , tea , civil , escort , military
  • 385 : handsome , pretty , lust , squish , bristle
  • 390 : Autumn , season , rumour , thick , dozen
  • 395 : war , race , indigo , purple , violet
  • 400 : green , orange , outward , charge , clumsy
  • 405 : nine , seven , dye , mechanism , pay (2)
  • 410 : repay , monastery , bulb , gross , weave
  • 415 : ancient , greet , distance , to honour , follow (2)
  • 420 : palm , small , shy , collate , exchange
  • 425 : hand-over , constellation , religion , holy , chimney
  • 430 : adverse , raise , situation , heel , starve
  • 435 : rag , radio , rail , rash , upon
  • 440 : humane , human , willing , profit , beg
  • 445 : fetus , rebel , shop , mutual , sentence
  • 450 : grab , converscate , compose , extrovert , introvert
  • 455 : hat , plain , arrange , athlete , attitude
  • 460 : attract , attention , asset , access , ascend
  • 465 : argument , arts , amaze , area , authority
  • 470 : acquire , ape , alphabet , approve , appear
  • 475 : ankle , annoy , anti- , angry , grasp
  • 480 : arm , before , below , brick , bill
  • 485 : behave , bag , bend , baby , ball
  • 490 : balance , back , atom , bad , attack
  • 495 : buy , best , activity , away , axel
  • 500 : award , aware , achieve , available , alert
  • 505 : branch , crowd , absorb , appearance , around
  • 510 : angle , act , alkaline , acid , reptile
  • 515 : inform , animal , revive , accept , scold
  • 520 : surname , precede , persuade , hand over , paint
  • 525 : pan , painting , leisure , biology , bounce
  • 530 : against , accelerate , ally , alcohol , alive
  • 535 : allow , ask , air , aim , aggression
  • 540 : age , active , agree , action , afford
  • 545 : above , admit , adult , advice , add
  • 550 : accuse , heal , accommodation , uniform , agreement
  • 555 : travel , welcome , wear , weigh , wet
  • 560 : weather , well , west , wander , wall
  • 565 : wave , wash , paper , throw , whole
  • 570 : trick , transport , top , toxin , tool
  • 575 : train , tournament , tiny , temperature , tell
  • 580 : tired , treat , wool , ignorant , tackle
  • 585 : struggle , master , surely , scrape , year
  • 590 : waste , wrapper , worm , wrist , whether
  • 595 : write , wheel , wood , worth , worry
  • 600 : world , Winter , wild , weekend , week
  • 605 : weak , wire , wise , thirsty , wriggle
  • 610 : receive , tie , roar , rural , rare
  • 615 : rope , repel , route , role , roll
  • 620 : ruin , recharge , reset , react , show
  • 625 : rib , rubbish , rub , ratio , random
  • 630 : rank , regular , ready , reach , quit
  • 635 : present , heat , recycle , spectrum , thoughtful
  • 640 : tingle , tail , sweat , smart , stretch
  • 645 : spiral , star , start , squeeze , spy
  • 650 : rest , spring , thermometer , soil , soft
  • 655 : sorry , signal , search , soldier , shoulder
  • 660 : scale , science , scab , sand , sound
  • 665 : speed , prick , orbit , belong , reflect
  • 670 : update , redeem , specialist , relapse , non-
  • 675 : timely , pulse , percussion , deity , loud
  • 680 : waist , surrender , treat , go past , isolate
  • 685 : drive , money , mourn , numerator , denominator
  • 690 : currency , grind , fail , noise , book
  • 695 : expensive , sunrise , dusk , powder , dust
  • 700 : right [permission] , leash , marsh , steel , ridge
  • 705 : pen , intrinsic , amends , domicile , dominate
  • 710 : short , sit , heaven , husband , pin
  • 715 : stale , sight , beat , pity , mercy
  • 720 : dissolve , report , loyal , frustrate , quiet
  • 725 : fate , recover , flu , verify , knock-on effect
  • 730 : controversial , express , mediocre , proportionate , deaf
  • 735 : firm , mute , implicate , blame , malice
  • 740 : occur , daunt , budget , topple , trip
  • 745 : contradict , contrary , hate , prepare , proportion
  • 750 : physics , tear , fuzzy , favour , five
  • 755 : overwhelm , nod , resident , territory , depress
  • 760 : bump , typical , blind , break (2) , trend
  • 765 : disorder , bias , enable , disable , disability
  • 770 : expose , rigour , co-operate , party , gravity
  • 775 : root , prison , meal , ID , irritate
  • 780 : important , intelligent , intense , insert , input
  • 785 : investigate , innocent , interpret , imagine , infect
  • 790 : press , ideal , invade , introduce , increase
  • 795 : instinct , indicate , include , idea , information
  • 800 : hue , hurt , hit , hour , indirect
  • 805 : just , late , last , large , level
  • 810 : listen , knot , knee , kill , kind
  • 815 : keen , kidney , instructions , key , interest
  • 820 : justify , jump , joint , join , jerk
  • 825 : joke , jagged , judge , job , justice
  • 830 : journey , horizontal , kick , friction , hear
  • 835 : give , grief , gene , generation , gasp
  • 840 : gap , general , great , grow , freeze
  • 845 : glide , frequency , glass , free , fold
  • 850 : focus , fog , force , foundation , fun
  • 855 : fist , fill , fit , finish , fine
  • 860 : friend , hard , lead , hot , home
  • 865 : hunt , hundred , history , hip , hearing
  • 870 : heavy , tough , health , geek , hang
  • 875 : hole , guard , gas , gram , graceful
  • 880 : ground , group , grip , govern , go / goes
  • 885 : generous , gone , gum , handle , obstruct
  • 890 : near , origin , order , opportunity , operate
  • 895 : open , offer , off , obsession , obscure
  • 900 : obvious , onto , object , output , out
  • 905 : once , outside , only , opinion , nearly
  • 910 : nobody , news , now , nerve , notice
  • 915 : laugh , obey , pass , pipe , pointy
  • 920 : polite , pool , pour , pant , panic
  • 925 : point (2) , point (1) , practical , practise (practice) , organ
  • 930 : pat , north , pause , pain , past
  • 935 : part , piece , pay , oxygen , own
  • 940 : overcome , oval , over , outline , publish
  • 945 : location , not , maintain , manage , machine
  • 950 : mark , mathematics , model , luck , lot
  • 955 : liquid , loop , marry , lower , modern
  • 960 : low , lonely , lens , land , lend
  • 965 : lenient , learn , length , leak , leave
  • 970 : load , frighten , loose , negative , nonsense
  • 975 : none , name , neutral , night , needle
  • 980 : network , next , neck , number , nationality
  • 985 : maximum , note , language , nature , mock
  • 990 : moment , mold , motor , mine , menu
  • 995 : month , mother , medical , memory , media


Coloured floors as spelling prompts

If I make a floor for each letter of the alphabet then it can prompt the spelling of a vocabulary person from the Women 1000. I can take a woman image and position her stood on one fo the 26 floors (which could be the tops of buildings or tops of building structures). The choice of floor will tend to start with the same letter as what it represents. E.g. "A" could be a railway arch because of "A" for "Arch".

In other articles, I have shown how colour fill for A / E / I / O / U and other common second letters of words can be used. E.g. See the Double Digit Acrostics article.

The colour fill of the choice of floor can indicate the second letter of the spelling of a word; if I include CH and SH and TH and ZH as floor types then expect the colour fill to be describing the third letter. I also see that these places can represent numbers too (when I just colour fill their transparent areas with white); and those numbers will let me picture Ancient Greece article people images at places that represent the day of the month which each Ancient Greece person represents.

Letter Number Image
A2Arch
B10Bridge
C17Concrete and Candlesticks
CH21Chapel
D14Dock
E3Eroded Cliff
F19Fortress
G13Graveyard (ground is transparent only)
H22Highway
I1Ice
J11Japanese Tree
K27Koi Pond
L20Loading Bay
M24Marble Steps
N15Narrowboat
O0Old Ruin
P25Pyramid
Q26Quarry
R23Rooftop
S16Stage
SH12Shack
T18Tennis Court
TH28Throne Room
U4Underpass
V9Village Square
W5Wasteland
X6Crossroads
Y8Young Tree
Z7Zebra Crossing
ZH29Zoo House
Tunnel30
Locomotive31

Although there exists the AA to ZZ Heroes system for visualising spelling clues in a scene, the 1000 women (and 1000 men system) are so fundamental that I do not want them having long term associations with particular AA to ZZ heroes; so I like the idea of using this Alphabet Places approach for prompting their word meaning

I could create a location for each prefix prompt of the 'double digit acrostics' article. If I could have a transparent feature in each of the location images then I could do the same colour fill technique to express the extra letter. And then the regular A to Z alphabet places, above, would be for the spellings that the 100 do not cover.

So start with the picture dictionary or other vocabulary visual image that needs its name prompted; then imagine it at the location that matches its first prefix letters; and colour fill the transparent part of that location appropriately. Although I used icon 06 of the double digit acrostics article to make a visual icon [Astronomy telescope], I could also use the same topic of 'Astronomy' to create a simple location where one feature of it is transparent.

If no Double Digit Acrostics sspellingprompt is appropriate then use the A to Z location images even though they tend to give you shorter prefix prompts.

(And the Music Spellings article explains how a background melody on a particular musical instrument can be a spelling prompt too while you imagine something such as one of the 1000 women.)