Re: Using word generators (was Re: Semitic root word list?)

David J. Peterson wrote:

> I don't know about the "easily" part...  I wonder: is there a simple
> way to calculate letter frequency in one's vocabulary?  I bet
> there probably is, but not for folks like me that use a word processing
> document for a dictionary...  I'd switch to a spreadsheet, but it's
> just so ugly...  And too practical!  ;)
I underline words in the vocabulary and search for specific underlined
characters. Not necessarily accurate, since roots entered more than once
(like elements of compounds) will be over-represented, but you can get a
pretty good rough count. And of course it doesn't take into account the
frequency of the words in actual text. So for instance one version of
Tirelat had the phoneme /H/, but it was only used in a couple of rare
words, so its occurrence in actual text would be even lower.