Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5951 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2000 13:46:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Sep 2000 13:46:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hn.egroups.com) (10.1.2.221) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2000 13:46:24 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: alkaline@bigfoot.com Received: from [10.1.10.122] by hn.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Sep 2000 13:46:24 -0000 Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:46:23 -0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: vowel counts Message-ID: <8oobvf+m1tl@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 192.35.17.26 From: "Garrett Jones" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4184 Content-Length: 440 Lines: 26 I wrote a short perl script to count the vowels in the gismu in the official word list and it came up with this count: ending i = 448 ending a = 335 ending u = 251 ending e = 158 ending o = 150 midvowel a = 510 midvowel i = 353 midvowel u = 201 midvowel e = 186 midvowel o = 92 total a = 845 total i = 801 total u = 452 total e = 344 total o = 242 'a' and 'i' win by a fair margin over the others... i wonder why that is.