[CW] q vs y

[Derek Wills]

	Good or bad for learning,  the musical phrase "HERE COMES THE BRIDE"
	is  a perfect match for the rhythm of the morse letter "Q"  DAH DAH 
        DI-DAH.  The letter "Y"  is DAH DI-DAH DAH which could be matched 
        with the cadence of the word COL-O-RAH-DOH.   You could likely find 
        an associational match for all the Morse characters, but it might 
        drastically slow down the process of learning the code.

I thought the original poster knew both characters perfectly well,
but sometimes thought dah-dah-di-dah was Y, so I don't see how the
above helps.

And by the way, who pronounces Colorado that way?   I thought the
point of learning the code that way was to match the sounds with
words that started with the same letter?

I learned the code another wrong way, by looking at the symbols in
a written list, so I always think I "see" the dots and dashes rather
than hear them - but when I see Morse written out in ads, I 'sound'
it rather than 'read' it, so perhaps not.

I think it's best not to think about how one copies the faster code,
otherwise you may not be able to do it any more :-)

Derek
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