Island 94 » scrabble http://www.island94.org Ben Sheldon's lost & found Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:04:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Frequency of occurrence of letters in English http://www.island94.org/2010/03/frequency-of-occurrence-of-letters-in-english/ http://www.island94.org/2010/03/frequency-of-occurrence-of-letters-in-english/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:28:04 +0000 Ben http://www.island94.org/?p=1826

I’ve already posted the cake recipe from PopCo—a great novel by Alice Butler—so here another part of the back matter: a table of the frequency of occurrence of letters in English from Fletcher Pratt’s Secret and Urgent: the story of codes and ciphers, Blue Ribbon Books, 1939. To be fair, the table above is actually from the only place I could find it on the internet: a 1997 patent for a chordic keyboard who cites “Pratt Fetcher”.

Fletcher Pratt also established a dining club upon which Asimov’s Black Widowers series was based.

Update: Apparently the numbers above are different than what was published in PopCo:


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