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In article <1992Oct15.140918.27296@emr1.emr.ca> nyelle@ccrs.emr.ca
(Norman Yelle) writes:
>In article <1big1qINNrnq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
>>I'm in dire need of a letter frequency chart for the English language.  I
>>remember as a kid reading books on basic cryptanalysis and seeing these
>>charts of the most frequently used letter (like "E" is most often used,
>>then "S" or "R" or something, etc).

>If you have an on-line copy of the dictionnary, then you can do the
>following:
>
>  grep -i e /usr/dict/words | wc
>
>... to find how many words contain the letter 'e'.  You can do this for all
>26 letters.  This is the results I got with a dictionary of 25144 words:

However, that is _not_ what was asked for.

Exercise for the reader: Identify two errors in the methodology.

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