# How to disambiguate your pictures?

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**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-disambiguate-your-pictures/49467 "2020-04-18T19:37:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bonhio](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bonhio](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/bonhio)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-disambiguate-your-pictures/49467/1 "2020-04-18T19:37:01Z")

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Hello,

I have just very recently started experimenting with the loci method and have seen relatively good results so far. However, a mistake that happens to me often when remembering words, is that I will remember very similar words instead. For example, when the given word is “Singer” I might accidentally recall “singing” later on. Or the given word might be “line”, but I remember “stroke” because I just remembered the picture of a line.

So how do you disambiguate your pictures? How do you know the exact word later on, without producing a word that is either phonetically similar, or similar in meaning?

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**Author:** ![Erol](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/erol/32/2494_2.png) [@Erol](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Erol)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-to-disambiguate-your-pictures/49467/2 "2020-04-18T21:59:49Z")

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> [@bonhio](#):
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> when the given word is “Singer” I might accidentally recall “singing” later on

Hi Bonhio, welcome to the forum.

Try this;

Since “Singing” and “Singer” both have the word “Sing”,  
You would have an image for “sing”, perhaps the image of “Musical Note” symbol.

You would then add a Letter Shape and Link the two together.

add an image for “R” to singeR,  
add an image for “N” to singiNg.

Since R and N gives you the phonetics, it would be easy to add a letter shape/image.

For the letter R, you’d use the image of “Pincer” as a letter shape.  
Or any image that may make sense to you as the letter R.  
For the link action, you could perhaps imagine  
“The music note is held by the Pincer” = SingeR

For the letter N = Compass (North)  
You may imagine a single image as  
“Music Note symbol in the middle of A Compass” = SingiNg

If you wanted to use “G” as the suffix,  
The letter G = G-Clamp  
So you may imagine;  
“Music Note Clamped between the points of a G-Clamp” = SinginG.

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Another example;

Arctic vs Antarctic  
See if you can notice any syllable words that you can convert into images.

Arctic = Arc | Tic  
Arc = Arch  
Tic = Tick

Antarctic = Ant | Arctic  
Ant = Ant  
Arctic = as above.

Again use a link action to chain the two or three together as a single image.

The letter shapes/images of the Alphabet comes very handy to distinguish the words that are very similar.

Hope this helps.

Here is a link for the Alphabet peg list if you like to use it.

> [@The Letter Shapes Of The English Alphabet A - Z](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-letter-shapes-of-the-english-alphabet-a-z/33229?_ga=2.259015182.500046773.1586952688-856197258.1581765327):
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> The Letter Shapes Of The English Alphabet A - Z This is a part of “The Shaper System” The shaper system I use is to create the number shapes from 0-9 and 00 - 99, and the letter shapes from A-Z. [https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-shaper-system-number-shapes-00-99-anyone-using-it/33221](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-shaper-system-number-shapes-00-99-anyone-using-it/33221) While I was creating images for the shaper system for the numbers, I stumbled upon a new discovery with the letter shapes as some of the numbers converted into a single letter. I did some search on google, h…