granadabrettishholmes: The Dancing Men “The letter E is the most common in the English lan
granadabrettishholmes:The Dancing Men“The letter E is the most common in the English language.”From “Bending the Willow” by David Stuart DaviesMichael Cox told me:‘By the time we did that one, Jeremy and David had established a very good rapport and they contributed quite a lot of fun about the solving of the code. I know they contributed that bit of business at the end where Watson is explaining to the others how you break a code, saying E is the most frequently used letter in the alphabet. I suspect also that they contributed the moment where Watson is secretly reading Holmes’s Monograph on ciphers [a ‘trifling’ monograph upon the subject of secret writings in which he analysed 160 separate ciphers]. Whatever, that was the kind of thing they enjoyed.’Look at how utterly delighted Holmes is to discover that Watson read and basically memorized his “trifling monograph” on ciphers. We’re only a few episodes in. If this isn’t courtship, I don’t know what is. -- source link
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