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  2. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  3. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    However, there are only 26 letters in the modern English alphabet, so there is not a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. Many sounds are spelled using different letters or multiple letters, and for those words whose pronunciation is predictable from the spelling, the sounds denoted by the letters depend on the surrounding letters.

  4. Institute of Transportation Engineers - Wikipedia

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    The constitution and by-laws were later adopted at a meeting in New York on January 20, 1931. The first chapter of the Institute of Traffic Engineers [1] was established consisting of 30 men with Ernest P. Goodrich as its first president. [4] The organization consists of 10 districts, 62 sections, and 30 chapters from various parts of the world ...

  5. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    Eve could use frequency analysis to help solve the message along the following lines: counts of the letters in the cryptogram show that I is the most common single letter, [2] XL most common bigram, and XLI is the most common trigram. e is the most common letter in the English language, th is the most common bigram, and the is the most common ...

  6. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    The letter u can take a diaeresis (ü), but only after the letter g; Some words frequently used: de, el, del, los, la(s), uno(s), una(s), y; No apostrophised contractions; No use of grave accent; Letters k and w are rare and only used in loanwords (e.g. walkman) Word beginnings: ll- (check not Welsh or Catalan) double L (ll)

  7. What Is the Longest Word in English? Hint: It’s 189,819 ...

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    So, if this is the sort of distinction you care about, we’ve got some more brain food for you: With 645 meanings, the most complicated word in English is only three letters long. Sources:

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  9. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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    The standards were revised in 2017 and call for teaching involving "reading or literacy experiences" as well as phonemic awareness from prekindergarten to grade 1 and phonics, word recognition, and word analysis skills in decoding words from grade 1 to grade 4. They will become effective at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year.