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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

Source

Courtesy National Scrabble Association, reproduced in Wall Street Journal

Author

w:Alfred Butts

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