Why posting….
Due to the interest of some of the forum members(here), I am posting about and sharing my “Alphabet PAO System” in a separate thread.
My reason for using the system(skip the lengthy passage if you want!)….
I needed a way to remember gibberish letters and convert the letters into a meaningful image(for my office works)! And I found that Alphabet PAO System works very well in remembering gibberish and meaningless letters!!!
My dayjob requires me to deal with random and gibberish letters everyday. We have around 300 U.S hospital names to deal with in our work of Medical Billing and Coding. Each hospital in our work is assigned an alpha-numeric code like this: ABTU69. We identify a hospital,its address,location,types,descriptions,services,etc by the code. Not only that,when we bill insurance companies,we have to assign standard codes using CPT,ICD-10,etc. And there are thousands of different CPT/ICD-10 codes for diseases of a patients! So,one is required to remember alpha-numeric codes that are meaningless in nature and cannot be transformed into ‘meaningful images’ as mnemonic.
Where to use the system……
So,I at first used this system for gibberish codes like the following:
SBTDU91
XXNOP15
Then,I also started to use the “Alphabet PAO System” with abstract words like “Amazing, Idea”,etc!
The system works in both cases…for gibberish letters and for abstract words!
How to….
It is easy to apply the system. It is like the PAO number systems.
Let’s,for example, take this gibberish code/letters and memorize it: DESPA
[P] - Dredd
[A] - Eating
[O] - Snake
[W] - Panjabi(asian dress)
[L] – Alley
Now,we create a ‘story’ with Dreed,Eating,Snake,Panjabi,Alley and put it in a Loci! Easy to remember! The damn gibberish code is under my control now! LOL…… ![]()
Or,let’s take the word “Amazing” and remember it:
We don’t need to convert the whole word into images. We can take “Amzin”(or even Amz) and our brain will fill up the gap and understand that it is the word ‘Amazing’.
[P] – Anjelina Jolie
[A] - Moving
[O] - Zebra
[W] - Ice Skates
[L] - Nebula
Misc……
The idea to use PAO(Person,Action,Other) for letters is not new. Great Mnemonist like Giordano Bruno seems to have used a modified version of PAO for letters!
Credits……
I have taken help from other forum member’s list of Alphabet pegs to complete my list,especially the “Other” section(Person section is completely mine,however
). Credit goes to them,especially to Mr. @Erol .
Link…
You can get the complete list of Alphabet PAO System from the following link!


