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| #3 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 16:35 pm The most used letter in the English Alphabet: A vs E? |
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I found this in wikipedia, so I can't tell how reliable this information is, but according to this table it is certainly 'e'.
Letter ↓ Frequency ↓
A ......... 8.17%
B ......... 1.49%
C ........ 2.78%
D ........ 4.25%
E ......... 12.70%
F .......... 2.23%
G ..... 2.02%
H ..... 6.09%
I ...... 6.97%
J ...... 0.15%
K ...... 0.77%
L ...... 4.03%
M...... 2.41%
N ...... 6.75%
O...... 7.51%
P ...... 1.93%
Q ..... 0.10%
R ...... 5.99%
S ..... 6.33%
T ..... 9.06%
U...... 2.76%
V ...... 0.98%
W ...... 2.36%
X ...... 0.15%
Y ...... 1.97%
Z ...... 0.07%
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| #4 (permalink) Fri May 29, 2009 12:09 pm The most used letter in the English Alphabet: A vs E? |
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Hi Shyone,
To be honest i did know that, for me this information is reliable. today i learned some thing new.
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Jun 03, 2009 15:09 pm The most used letter in the English Alphabet: A vs E? |
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Thank you very much for the information, Shyone
Noren Lee
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PS: I have heard that there's is an essay or story without the letter "E". Do you have any idea?
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Jun 03, 2009 18:44 pm The most used letter in the English Alphabet: A vs E? |
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Interesting. I have never thought of the most used letter in the English Alphabet.
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:56 am Thank you |
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Hi Shyone, thank you very much for your help. I found what I was looking for.
GADSBY
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| #9 (permalink) Thu Jun 11, 2009 15:05 pm The most used letter in the English Alphabet: A vs E? |
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In Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Dancing Men", Holmes says it to Watson. He points out the most frequently appeard "dancing man" as the symbol for "E".
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| The first message submitted to me was so short that it was impossible for me to do more than to say, with some confidence, that the symbol stood for E. As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet, and it predominates to so marked an extent that even in a short sentence one would expect to find it most often. Out of fifteen symbols in the first message, four were the same, so it was reasonable to set this down as E. -from The Adventure of the Dancing Men |
By the way, how could the author know that?
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