[Edu-sig] Cryptonomicon

[Kirby Urner]

>> e.g. letter frequency, in descending order, tends towards 
>> ETAOINSHRDLU, plus we have commonly occuring letter combos, 
>> like ET EA OU.
>
>I thought that was 'RSTLNE'..
>
>Dustin

A joke, right?  Something to do with the Wheel of Fortune.

BTW, my source for that factoid was:
http://raphael.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/crypt/freq.html

Here's another post on the topic, which gives some 
alternatives (all starting with ET though):
http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1998.7/msg00388.html

Kirby