Compare Wikipedia's table of the relative frequencies of initial letters in English.
$ dig axfr . @f.root-servers.net |
perl -ne '
next unless /^(([a-z])[a-z0-9-]+)[.][ ].*/;
$label{$1} = 1; $letter{$2}++; $total++;
END {
for my $x (sort keys %letter) {
my $p = 100.0*$letter{$x}/$total;
printf "<tr><td>$x</td>
<td align=right>%5.2f</td>
<td><span style=\"
display: inline-block;
background-color: gray;
width: %d;\">
</span></td></tr>\n",
$p, 32*$p;
}
}'
| a | 5.24 | |
| b | 5.96 | |
| c | 10.02 | |
| d | 2.45 | |
| e | 3.28 | |
| f | 2.43 | |
| g | 5.03 | |
| h | 1.78 | |
| i | 3.38 | |
| j | 1.14 | |
| k | 2.71 | |
| l | 3.74 | |
| m | 6.69 | |
| n | 4.26 | |
| o | 0.72 | |
| p | 5.68 | |
| q | 0.65 | |
| r | 2.81 | |
| s | 6.15 | |
| t | 6.02 | |
| u | 1.91 | |
| v | 2.66 | |
| w | 1.94 | |
| x | 12.19 | |
| y | 0.41 | |
| z | 0.75 |
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