
Nov. 20, 2000
5:28 p.m.
e.g. letter frequency, in descending order, tends towards ETAOINSHRDLU, plus we have commonly occuring letter combos, like ET EA OU.
I thought that was 'RSTLNE'..
Dustin
A joke, right? Something to do with the Wheel of Fortune. BTW, my source for that factoid was: http://raphael.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/crypt/freq.html Here's another post on the topic, which gives some alternatives (all starting with ET though): http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1998.7/msg00388.html Kirby