Letters

Frequency of. Printers find that they use certain letters more frequently than others. The letter "e" is called for oftenest. For every thousand "e's" only twenty-two "z's" are needed. The following is the entire table:

The letter "s" is used more frequently than any other as an initial. Twenty-three initial "y's" are needed to four "x's." The following table gives the relative frequency of initial letters: