Is It ETAION RSHLDCU OR ETAOIN SRHLDCU?.

Pulford, Lynn H.

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Publication Date: 1979

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Is It ETAION RSHLDCU OR ETAOIN SRHLDCU?

Pulford, Lynn H.

Journalism Quarterly, v56 n4 p870-71 Win 1979

A count of the characters in two combined groups of local and United Press International news stories suggests that the frequency ranking of the letters used most in typesetting is ETAOIN RSHLDCU, rather than the traditional ETAOIN SRHLDCU or the order reported by I. E. Fang in 1966. (GT)

Descriptors: Letters (Alphabet), Media Research, News Writing, Written Language

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