[CW] q vs y

[Ken Brown]

My recommendation is to avoid these kinds of mnemonic crutches like the 
plague. They add an extra mental step to the process, much as counting 
dits and dahs does. If you "learn" the code this way you ultimately will 
need to unlearn it, and relearn it using direct association from the 
sound of each character to writing each character. These kinds of 
multiple step methods of converting from dits and dahs, to phrases, and 
finally to letters will only work up to perhaps ten words per minute. 
When want to learn to copy at useful speeds, you will have to learn it 
all over again.

DE N6KB
>>
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Back in the 1930s someone came up with a whole alphabet of such phrases, 
> but I can't find a reference just now.
> It started out:
>
> A = Able
> B = Baby-bit-it
> C = Cheeky-Charlie
>
>