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English: Alfred Butts tabulated the frequency of letters in words of various length, using examples in a dictionary, the Saturday Evening Post, the Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. This was used to design the game Scrabble.
Date before 1948
date QS:P,+1948-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1948-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Courtesy National Scrabble Association, reproduced in Wall Street Journal
Author w:Alfred Butts
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