{"id":2829,"date":"2022-03-23T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:05:31","slug":"trust-me-its-an-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2829","title":{"rendered":"Trust Me \u2014 it&#8217;s an &#8220;E&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wheel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2830\" width=\"134\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wheel.jpg 209w, http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wheel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The other evening Wheel of Fortune came on TV and I watched it for a few minutes. It\u2019s a word guessing game and I suspect that the people that play it and are good at it, are knowledgeable of the frequency in which letters are used in the English language. It always amazes me that sometimes some of the players don\u2019t seem to have a clue. The other night a three letter word had a \u201cT\u201d and an \u201cH\u201d showing and the contestant said they\u2019d like to buy a vowel \u2014 they bought an \u201cE.\u201d Now if it\u2019s a three letter word \u201cTH(blank)\u201d \u2014 you don\u2019t need to spend your money buying a vowel. The word is \u201c<em><strong>THE<\/strong><\/em>!\u201d Guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well anyhow I decided to do some extensive research as to what letters occur most frequently in our language, and I came up with something surprising, or maybe not so surprising\u2026.<br>The most commonly used letter in the English language is \u201ce.\u201d The most common consonant is \u201ct,\u201d and the most common second letter in a word is \u201ch.\u201d Now for the surprising, or maybe not surprising part \u2014 the most common popular word in the English language is \u201cthe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I\u2019m ready to apply for that game show\u2026. and I won\u2019t be wasting my money to buy a vowel if two of the three letters in a word are T and H.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other evening Wheel of Fortune came on TV and I watched it for a few minutes. It\u2019s a word guessing game and I suspect that the people that play it and are good at it, are knowledgeable of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}