Hi Mark,

On 3/14/2016 3:57 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 03/14/2016 04:07 PM, Don Y wrote:

I let "oc[c]ASSionally" be the red flag for me.

I remember "not flour" when writing fluorescent.

I had a relation who lived at #356 (which I remembered as "not 365").

I had some trouble with "believe" until I thought about it having LIE in it.

Ah! I tend not to have problems with ie (i before e, except after c
or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh). Of course, all
of these rules to cover exceptions themselves have exceptions! :

When working on my speech synthesizer, it was frustrating to see just how
many exceptions there are to the "rules" we think we know -- but
actually have internalized and consciously forgotten!

E.g., think of the /w/ sound in:
women
what
which
one
quick

I found that "of" is one of the most commonly encountered exceptions
(there's no /f/ sound in the word!)

BTW, when I use NOT in mnemonic devices, it's usually the r's-1 (radix-1)
complement, so NOT 365 is 634 (note that each digit adds up to 9).

It's called the "nine's complement". The ten's complement is obtained
by adding one to the nine's complement. In much the same way that the
one's complement ant two's complements are related.

In my case, I subvocalize: "no, it's NOT flour -- so it must be fluor";
"it's not 365 (days in a year) so it must be 356"