Date:  Mon, 12 Sep 1994 08:52:45 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: frequency in English



I seem to recall the sequence etaoinshrdlu, perhaps as the sequence of

printers' blocks arranged for frequency of use. In fact there was even a

character in a novel I once read--The Circus of Doctor Lau?--named Etaoin

Shrdlu. It does have the virtue of being pronounceable. Of course, the

question can't really be answered unless we fix on which variety of English

text we're talking about.



 --Larry