# A different memorisation of an alphabetic system **URL:** \ **Category:** General Memory Chat\ **Created:** [February 3, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-different-memorisation-of-an-alphabetic-system/108520 "2026-02-03T16:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Hari-P](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/hari-p/32/20048_2.png) [@Hari-P](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Hari-P)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-different-memorisation-of-an-alphabetic-system/108520/2 "2026-02-04T08:32:38Z")
Speaking by experience, memorising letter by letter is always going to make mnemonics so long to code and decode that is it’s not going to be very efficient. I did build a system like this for Hebrew and it did work, but ended up not using it all that much, precisely because of speed, although the experiment was interesting. I explained it here: [Person-action-adjective-object-animal-job - #9 by Hari-P](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/person-action-adjective-object-animal-job/94772/9). Given how the use is limited you’ll need to have situations where you absolutely can’t do it any other way than letter by letter. And you have to have enough of these situations that the upfront investment of constructing a big letter system (that is probably going to be pretty unwieldy to use) is worth it). Is it really the case? If at all possible, it’s more effective to just do mnemonics for the points you always get wrong. Like if you don’t know if it’s philosophy or phylosophi, you would just tell yourself it’s “phi” first then “phy” because philosophs are logical so they put it in alphabetical order (“y” is at the end of the alphabet). There no point in having an image for “loso” because there’s no reason for you to write it wrong. But if your problem is that you don’t know the word philosophy at all, then a soundalike is more efficient. You’d imagine a philosopher (old greek guy with beard) named “Phil” meditating but actually daydreaming lovingly about “Sophie” (Sophia Lauren, Sophie Hatter whatever person you know). Not that you can’t experiment with an alphabetical system (I did it after all, it would be hypocritical of me to tell you not), just don’t have too high expectations 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-different-memorisation-of-an-alphabetic-system/108520)._