A124015 thoughts

[Brendan McKay]

* franktaw at netscape.net <franktaw at netscape.net> [061106 04:35]:
> Some years ago, researchers at Brown University put together a 
> collection of text from a large variety of source to serve as a 
> cross-section of English usage, for study of this kind of question.  If 
> you're going to add a sequence with statistics of this sort, that would 
> be the place to start.
> 
> See, e.g., Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Corpus.
> 
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters

Yes, but I don't know if statistics based on sampling belong in OEIS.
They are not precise well-defined quantities.  Counts derived from
single texts are more concrete, but even then there are multiple
editions, even changes between printings of the same edition.

Brendan.