p.13o/inside rear cover
the glued in alphabet jumble was my response to a challenge of listing the alphabet in order of frequency of use in english. according to Herbert S.Zim in his Codes and Secret Writing, this is correct until the end, which he has as "JXZQ" but i specifically recall the end as being grouped "WBVKX" & "JQZ", which i remember from a book called Codes and Ciphers" (not the one by Alexander D'Agapayeff but possibly the one by John Laffin), which fascinated me to the point of doing crosswords in cipher.
p.13o/inside rear cover
the glued in alphabet jumble was my response to a challenge of listing the alphabet in order of frequency of use in english. according to Herbert S.Zim in his Codes and Secret Writing, this is correct until the end, which he has as "JXZQ" but i specifically recall the end as being grouped "WBVKX" & "JQZ", which i remember from a book called Codes and Ciphers" (not the one by Alexander D'Agapayeff but possibly the one by John Laffin), which fascinated me to the point of doing crosswords in cipher.