Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qtlon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!mike From: mike@qtlon.UUCP (Mike Mccarthy) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: TP error Message-ID: <526@qtlon.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 09:35:22 EST Article-I.D.: qtlon.526 Posted: Tue Jan 15 09:35:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 01:35:06 EST References: <2675@ihldt.UUCP> Organization: Quantime Ltd., London, WC1 Lines: 7 Referring to the relative frequencies of Z & Q in English, May I suggest that in U.S. English the character Z is much more common than in British English so that Q may be the least common letter in the U.S. and Z may be the least common letter in Britain ? Incidenatally how do people work out these frequencies ? Do they sample books newspapers etc and then multiply the frequencies by a weighting factor dependant on how many copies of each book/magazine are published :-)