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[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Between them E, T, A, O, I, and N hold the majority of letters in texts. These are the upper class.

Throwing in the S, H, R, D, and L bourgeoisie accounts for more than three quarters.

This leaves C, U, M, W, F, G, Y, P, B, V, K, X, J, Q, and Z to share less than one quarter of the written letters in English.

I'm not sure that the obvious word of the proletariat needs to be used more, though.

How about syzygy?

[–] crime@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Syzygy is my go-to word for playing hangman

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

That's why I remembered it.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Well in english all words include vowels and you are excluding every vowel except u and (sometimes) y

scrabble fan?

[–] Jacobo_Villa_Lobos@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Is that an Etaoin Shrdlu I see in your comment? Does hexbear have an undercover Linotype enthusiast? amogus among-drip