Word: ua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other high-frequency plaintext vowels, a, i and o, tend to avoid one another. A contact chart would show that three of the most common letters in the ciphertext -O, U and A-are the most mutually exclusive. OA appears twice, OU once, and UO, UA, AO and AU not at all. But NU appears five times in the cryptogram. It happens that the most frequent English vowel diagraph is ea. Thus it is a good bet that U = a. Similarly, since the combination io is most frequent among the three dissident vowels in English, assume that it is represented...
...Blood's Coffin (Caralan; UA), another nasty trifle from Britain, is a skillful piece of suspense writing that might be described as a woman's horror picture-it's about a man who wants a woman's heart. When he can't get it, he takes somebody else's and transplants it into a corpse that-heh, heh-has some nasty ideas...