SOLUTION: how could you estimate the percent of words in the English language that begin with the letter Q?

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Question 277225: how could you estimate the percent of words in the English language that begin with the letter Q?
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I would get a big dictionary. I would look at the number of pages that are used for definitions of words that start with the letter Q. Then I would divide that by the number of pages that are used to define all of the words in that dictionary. Wouldn't be exact, but certainly close enough.

John