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THE MAGICALALPHABET
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letter E According to the data, the most common letter in the English language is the letter E. E typically takes first place regardless of which analysis method is used.20 Oct 2 What's The Most Common Letter Used In English? Thesaurus.com E’s frequency is likely due to the fact that it appears in the word the, the many plurals that end in -es, and in commonly used pronouns such as he, she, me, we, and they. For the curious, the list of the top 10 letters used in the English language typically consists of some arrangement of the following letters: E, T, A, O, I, N, S, R, H, and L englishlanguagethoughts.com 8 Apr 2018 — The schwa is so common because it's such a short, unstressed sound that's very useful for joining consonants together. In addition to ...
Why is the Letter E the Most Common Letter in the English language? The letter makes up 12.702% of the letters in an average text, and is the most commonly-used letter in English. The next most frequently-used letter is T, at 9.056%. I think the reason for the frequency of E is pretty simple. I mentioned recently that the schwa is the most common vowel sound in the English language, and of the five vowels, the letter E is the most logical candidate to represent that sound. Let’s look at that word I’ve been using all the time, letter, to see this in action.
Most Ubiquitous Letter in the English Language Dino's Storage 3 Nov 2017 — Readers Digest tells us that E is everywhere. In an analysis of all 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, OED editors found ...
This paragraph is abnormal. It contains an oddity, a linguistic quirk that you will find in no popular book or journal or script in any library. A crucial bit of vocabulary is missing (reading it aloud might help, but probably not). Can you spot our anomaly? And if you do, can you say what it is without spoiling it? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face, or the cream in your coffee, or the vowels in your alphabet. The above paragraph is missing the most common letter in the English language: the letter E. Readers Digest tells us that E is everywhere. In an analysis of all 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, OED editors found that the letter E appears in approximately 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary, about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, A. What’s more: E is the most commonly struck letter on your keyboard, and the second most popular key after the space bar. It’s one third of the single most-used word in English – ‘the’ – and appears in the most common English noun (‘time’), the most common verb (‘be’), in ubiquitous pronouns like he, she, me and we, not to mention tens of thousands of words ending in -ed and -es. There’s a reason that scribes see composing prose without the letter E as one of the ultimate challenges in constrained writing. This hasn’t stopped masochistic wordsmiths from trying. Author Ernest Vincent Wright’s 1939 novel Gadsby, for example, contains some 50,000 words – none of them containing an E – while the 1969 French novel La Disparition has been translated into a dozen different languages, each edition omitting the most common letter in that language. The French and English versions successfully last 300 pages without the letter E; in Spanish, the letter A gets omitted, and in Russian, it’s O. On the whole, most of the 5 full-time vowels (sometimes Y is a sixth) appear more frequently in English than most consonants, with a few exceptions. The most common consonants, Oxford’s analysis confirms, are R, T, N, S and L. The top ten most common letters in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and the percentage of words they appear in, are: 1. E – 11.1607%
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/frequency?view=uk Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is the frequency of the letters of the Alphabet in English? The inventor of Morse code, Samuel Morse (1791-1872), needed to know this so that he could give the simplest codes to the most frequently used letters. He did it simply by counting the number of letters in sets of printers' type. The figures he came up with were:
However, this gives the frequency of letters in English text, which is dominated by a relatively small number of common words (see What are the commonest English words?). For word games, it is often the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, regardless of word frequency, which is of more interest. We did an analysis of the letters occurring in the words listed in the main entries of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (9th edition, 1995) and came up with the following table: The third column represents proportions, taking the least common letter (q) as equal to 1. The letter E is over 56 times more common than Q in forming individual English words. The frequency of letters at the beginnings of words is different again. There are more English words beginning with the letter 's' than with any other letter. (This is mainly because clusters such as 'sc', 'sh', 'sp', and 'st' act almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' only comes about halfway down the order, and the letter 'x' unsurprisingly comes last.
The third column represents proportions, taking the least common letter (q) as equal to 1. The letter E is over 56 times more common than Q in forming individual English words. The frequency of letters at the beginnings of words is different again. There are more English words beginning with the letter 's' than with any other letter. (This is mainly because clusters such as 'sc', 'sh', 'sp', and 'st' act almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' only comes about halfway down the order, and the letter 'x' unsurprisingly comes last. Frequently Asked Questions What are the commonest English Words? The only way to measure this is to analyse a large collection (or 'corpus') of texts, but lists based on different collections (or 'corpora') tend to disagree about even the top ten words in English. A rough top thirty might look something like this: the of and a to in is that it was he for as on with his be at you I are this by from had have they not or one But you, for example, comes 8th in a list derived from the 'American Heritage' corpus (Carroll et al, 1971), 12th in a list based on the British National Corpus, 32nd in a list based on the 'LOB' (Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen) corpus (Hofland & Johansson 1982), and 33rd in a list based on the 'Brown' corpus (Francis & Kucera 1982).
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ======================================== ? Dave Denison - Expressionism Fantastique - More Information autobiography In 1996, the Yorkshire-based Denison began writing a letter to the famous scientist and author of ‘A Brief History of Time’, Stephen Hawkins. "Sir," it begins. "In presuming to write to as learned a gentleman as yourself, I am cognisant of the time constraints placed upon you by your work and other commitments...." By page five, however, we’ve reached the following: "Having been present at three hangings in my prison work and given mouth to mouth resucitation in training on numerous occasions, only once in F Wing Med Obs Brixton was I successful. This way to suck-cess. One summer afternoon all those on observation were, as it were, banged up on F3 landing. Along with other staff I'd been to the mess, made a good tea of sardines on toast, had me seven slices of bread an jam, pinta milk. Returned by the clock to the rock. Relieved colleagues for late tea break, 6pm. Two cleaners, allowed out over staff break periods. "Boss, boss!" This highly-skilled operative, me, sez: "What the fuck’s up with him?" "Boss, quick..." Lithe and panther-quick up the stairs. Nosy cleaner had put down the observation hatch of a 19-year-old. Topped off with beddin sheets. "Farkin ell boss, is dead." The wharramedics swung into action. Cut down or what, dunno. "Get to it Dave, tha’s specialist at this sorta thing. See how tha frames thiself." Four quick puffs. After checkin his gob was clear, on his back. Not breathing. Three or four watching, staff plus cleaners. Nobody volunteered to help. Encouragement though: "Hey up George, get yourself up here. Dave’s sticking t‘lips on one’er cons" "Fucking hell, let’s ‘ar look." "Yer a fucking glutton, Denison, you will fuck owt." He had no heartbeat…… Hawkins has yet to receive this letter, since it is still growing, and at the last count was well over 1,000 pages long, give or take the odd 24 hours-worth of unedited musings into a dictaphone. It’s an amorphous creature, cut any limb off and it would lumber forward regardless. What Hawkins will finally make of it depends, to some extent, on how brief time turns out to be. Why? What for? Well, only Dave seems to know. The point, he asserts, concerns what he calls ‘The Imiginative Imitative Need Imperative’. Mention the concept of editing and his eyes begin to narrow supsiciously behind the thick glass rims that have ensured he’s done no painting for the last decade or so. As a compartively unknown artist, Dave Denison can boast some impressive credentials. Like being the only person Max Ernst wanted to meet on his last visit to the UK, and having had most of his major pieces snapped up by shrewd collectors, significantly the late Roland Penrose, mentor to anyone who has shaped 20th century art, including Picasso and Henry Moore. Dave is self-taught, and spent the bulk of his working life in roles related in one capacity or another - largely medical - to the HM Prisons Service. Around 1977 he was invited by the Home Office to have a one man show in London to coincide with the "Arthur Koestler Awards" for creative work by inmates in the Prison Sytem, and sponsored by the eminent writer. There he met Arthur Koestler who's interest in his work was further encouragement. Richard Seddon art critic of the Yorkshire Post remarked in an early review that the only conceivable obstacle in Dave’s path towards serious esteem was that much of his work was of a similar size, he failed to understand that most of the paintings were being executed on canvases stowed in the filing cabinet in the Medical Room at the Prison Officers Training School where he was stationed as the Hospital Officer and First Aid Instructor. "....Denison’s voluntary enclosure in the walls of HM Prisons has provided him with the isolation necessary to the development of his fantasy," Roland Penrose wrote in 1980. "The terrors that have surrounded him for years are not the menacing howlings of famished beasts, but rather the sullen angry voices of men hungry for their liberty. Denison has found unexpectedly in his choice of suroundings, usually considered as hopelessly inappropriate for an artist, his own ladder of escape, of which each rung is formed by the tension created by the crime and punishment that has been the cause of the assemblage of his companions." This does little to convey the reality of being surrounded by cages with all those keys, the smells of disinfectant and bodily waste, the gallows humour, the cold huff of the yard and the endless hours immobile on bunks, the first squalid, botched suicide, syringes in private parts…. When pressed, Dave has plenty of stories. Wakefield Prison, let’s remember, has housed most of those capable of the extremes of horror which have shaped the last 50 years since World War 2 - bombers, mafisoi, psychos, rippers, panthers, foxes and the rest. One of Dave’s charges was Archibald Hall, ‘The Butler’, an opportunist mass murderer with impeccable manners who made the news every night for months in the late 70s until the BBC sudenly realised it was probably impossible for someone to be on their 299th day of hunger strike. These kind of things could warp your vision.... Dave’s paintings sometimes aren’t as easy to like as they are to admire, particularly now. They're both pre-PC and pre-the neutral, media-friendly gloss which has shaped much UK art in the last 20 years. In addition, his exteriors are all composed of interiors somehow: faces of gristle and bone and organs. The heart on his sleeve would be trailing gore and severed entrails. In terms of attention to detail and mastery of the traditional mediums though, he’s on a par with anyone you might care to name. In an excitable piece in the Sunday Times in June 1977, the art critic and Slade professor Lawrence Gowig came closest to capturing the essence of Dave’s work. "His imagining has a sardonic poetry of its own," he said. "His Study of a Head, for example, builds spectacles and dentures into the structure of the skull. Each eye-socket contains minutely glittering machinery like a watch. Denison is great on eyes. In another picture, a bushy insect likeness of himself sits down to make a meal of a pair of eyeballs. "A reflective painter will often discern something cannibal in the way an artist consumes his experience and himself, but here, the arched eyebrows and the clownlike red nose have the look of a Prime Minister of Mirth. The hilarity resides in the fantastic human mix - the very combination of ebullience and decrepitude that you can recognise in any pension queue. It is the living flesh of our time, shabbily facetious and libidinous, but decayed and dependent on spare parts. "In a year or two," Gowing concludes, "Dension will be famous and we shall wonder how we managed to neglect him." Another critic, John Hewitt, went further. "I believe this Wakefield prison officer and self-taught painter is probably the most brilliant artist produced in Yorkshire since David Hockney," he said. Best matches for DAVE DENISON. MAN WITH NO GOB "
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX AND THIS BY A FRIEND ADA WILSON FOR THE YORKSHIRE ARTS ASSOCIATION WEB SITE. In 1996, the Yorkshire-based Denison began writing a letter to the famous scientist and author of ‘A Brief History of Time’, Stephen Hawkins. "Having given mouth to mouth resucitation on numerous occasions, only once in F Wing Med Obs Brixton was I successful. This way to suck-cess. One summer afternoon all those on observation were, as it were, banged up. F3 landing. Along with other staff I'd been to the mess, made a good tea of sardines on toast, had me seven slices of bread an jam, pinta milk. Returned by the clock to the rock. Relieved colleagues for late tea break, 6pm. Two cleaners, allowed out over staff break periods. Richard Seddon art critic of the Yorkshire Post remarked in an early review that the only conceivable obstacle in Dave’s path towards serious esteem was that much of his work was of a similar size, he failed to understand that most of the paintings were being executed on canvases stowed in the locker of a prison officer’s rest room.
the Great Fire of London The London's Burning nursery song was written and composed after the Great Fire of London to help to retell the saddening events of the disaster. It has now become a hugely popular nursery rhyme that children love to sing and have fun with, but it is important to remember the reasons for the rhyme's existence.
London's burning nursery rhyme lyrics LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING, LONDON'S BURNING,
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