Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7:14:05 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> The problem with that theory is that 'er/re' (this is e and r in either >> order) is the 3rd most common pair in English but have been placed >> together. ou and et (in either order) are the 15th and 22nd most common >> and they are separated by only one hammer position. On the other hand, >> the QWERTY layout puts jk together, but they almost never appear >> together in English text. > > Where do you get this (kind of) statistical data?
It was generated by counting the pairs found in a corpus of texts taken from Project Gutenberg. The numbers do very depending on what you pick (for the complete works of Mark Twain er/re is second, for example), and the none of the texts are very modern (because of the source) but I doubt that matters too much. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
