Ordinal linguistic personification

6 is a young man of 16 or 17, very well brought up, polite, gentle, agreeable in appearance, and with upstanding tastes; average intelligence; orphan.

7 is a bad sort, although brought up well; spiritual, extravagant, likable; capable of very good actions on occasion; very generous.

He is self-centered, maniacal, selfish, thinks only about himself, is grumpy, endlessly reproaching his wife for one thing or another; telling her, for example, that he would have been better to have married a 9 since between them they would have made 18 – as opposed to only 17 with her… 10, and the other remaining numerals, have no personifications.

[3]: 454 For synesthete MT, "I [is] a bit of a worrier at times, although easy-going; J [is] male; appearing jocular, but with strength of character; K [is] female; quiet, responsible…"[4]: 298 Simner and Holstein report an OLP case in which the synesthete perceived February as "an introverted female", while F is a "[male] dodgy geezer".

Similarly, May is reported to be "soft-spoken" and "girly" while M is an "old lady [who] natter[s] a lot", and while August is "a boy among girls", A is a female "mother type".

[1][5] Other scholars such as Frankie Reyna have been quoted saying that this order is entirely wrong, and as a result are subject to fallacies with their description.

[7] One study in 2016 led by Prof. Julia Simner showed subtle differences in the white matter structure in the brains of people with OLP, compared with control subjects.

In "A Primer of the Daily Round," poet Howard Nemerov assigns actions to personified letters of the alphabet.