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And there were political moments, too. In the heat of the first wave of the Occupy movement, I produced this chart, which addressed the inherent unfairness of the alphabet. I passed it out around New York City. Some people took it with a grain of salt; others, with an entire shaker.

Salt, of course, was the source of one of the pieces I created for ILoveCharts that wasn’t exactly a chart. It’s in the book, so I won’t reprint it here. I will only remind you to go out and buy the book, so that you can experience the glory of the chart form in all its rational, irrational, sensible, senseless glory.

If this is accurate, it’s incredibly cool. It seems pretty arbitrary, given the range of use of language*, that the alphabet would be exactly ordered by frequency.

*That bredth of use being by I take this with an ocean’s-ful of salt. 

Edit: Evidently I don’t know the order of the alphabet.

(via mixedmeridians)