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== Method ==
== Method ==
Python's collections.Counter was used to count the frequency of the MTL monosyllables taken from the first section of the dictionary:
We isolated 2,936 rows from the dictionary that are monosyllables and converted their TRS to MTL. We only considered words from the first section of the dictionary because they appear to be frequently used, and ignored the second section. Then we counted the frequency of each MTL with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of dictionary rows matching each MTL, and got 1,813 unique MTL. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:
* 1,813 unique MTL were collected from 2,936 rows
* as expected, many MTL (39%) match more than one row. This affects 62% of rows
* as expected, many MTL (39%) match more than one row. This affects 62% of rows
* however, 61% of MTL and 38% of rows uniquely match one-to-one
* however, 61% of MTL and 38% of rows uniquely match one-to-one
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