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This is a small project that helps reinforce the Peg System, mainly the Major System but it can be used as well for any other analogous application.
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Reminder
Here is a small reminder (from the wiki page) about the Major System. Each numeral is associated with one or more consonants. (In other words, the link is to the sound, not the letter. For example, the letters C in "cat", "Cynthia", and "cello" each have different values in the system -- 7, 0, and 6, respectively.) Vowels, semivowels and the consonant /h/ are ignored. These can be used as "fillers" to make sensible words from the resulting consonant sequences. A standard mapping is:
| Numeral | Sounds (IPA) | Commonly associated letters | Mnemonic and remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | /s/, /z/ | s, soft c, z, x (in xylophone) | Zero begins with z (and /z/). Upper case S and Z, as well as lower case s and z, have zero vertical strokes each, as with the numeral 0. The alveolar fricatives /s/ and /z/ form a voiceless and voiced pair. |
| 1 | /t/, /d/, /θ/, /ð/ | t, d , th (both in thing and this) | Upper case T and D, as well as lower case t and d have one vertical stroke each, as with the numeral 1. The alveolar stops /t/ and /d/ form a voiceless and voiced pair, as do the similar-sounding dental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/, though some variant systems may omit the latter pair. |
| 2 | /n/ | n | Upper case N and lower case n each have two vertical strokes and two points on the baseline. |
| 3 | /m/ | m | Lower case m has three vertical strokes. Both upper case M and lower case m each have three points on the baseline and look like the numeral 3 on its side. |
| 4 | /r/ | r, l (as sounded in colonel) | Four ends with r (and /r/ in rhotic accents). |
| 5 | /l/ | l | L is the Roman numeral for 50. Among the five digits of one's left hand, the thumb and index fingers also form an L. |
| 6 | /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/ | ch (in cheese and chef), j, soft g, sh, c (as sounded in cello and special), cz (as sounded in Czech), s (as sounded in tissue and vision), sc (as sounded in fascist), sch (as sounded in schwa and eschew), t (as sounded in ration and equation), tsch (in putsch), z (in seizure) | Upper case G looks like the numeral 6 and lower case g looks like the numeral 6 rotated 180°. Lower case script j tends to have a lower loop, like the numeral 6. In some serif fonts, upper case CH, SH and ZH each have six serifs. The postalveolar affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ form a voiceless and voiced pair, as do the similar-sounding postalveolar fricatives /ʃ/ and /ʒ/. CHurch has six letters. |
| 7 | /k/, /ɡ/ | k, hard c, q, hard g, ch (as sounded in loch), | Both upper case K and lower case k look like two small 7s on their sides. In some fonts, the lower-right part of the upper case G looks like a 7. G is also the 7th letter of the alphabet. The velar stops /k/ and /ɡ/ form a voiceless and voiced pair. |
| 8 | /f/, /v/ | f, ph (in phone), v, gh (as sounded in laugh) | Lower case script f, which tends to have an upper and lower loop, looks like a figure-8. The labiodental fricatives /f/ and /v/ form a voiceless and voiced pair. |
| 9 | /p/, /b/ | p, b | Upper case P and lower case p look like the numeral 9 flipped horizontally. Lower case b looks like the numeral 9 turned 180°. The labial stops /p/ and /b/ form a voiceless and voiced pair. |
| Unassigned | /h/, /j/, /w/, /x/, vowel sounds | h, y, w, a, e, i, o, u, silent letters, ch (in chutzpah), j (in Hallelujah and jalapeno), ll (in tortilla) | Vowel sounds, semivowels (/j/ and /w/) and /h/ do not correspond to any number. They can appear anywhere in a word without changing its number value. |
| (2, 27 or 7) | /ŋ/ | ng, n before k, hard c, q, hard g or x | Variant systems differ about whether /ŋ/ should encode 2 and classified together with /n/, 7 and classified together with /k/ and /ɡ/ or even 27 (e.g. ring could be 42, 47 or 427). When a /k/ and /ɡ/ is pronounced separately after the /ŋ/, variant systems that chose /ŋ/ to be 27 also disagree if an extra 7 should be written (e.g. finger could be 8274 or 82774, or if /ŋ/ is chosen to be 7, 8774). |