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 == Method ==
-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. We folded in backquoted words, for example ''`lie'' was counted as ''lix''. Then we counted the frequency of each sound with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of homophonic dictionary rows, and got 1,800 distinct sounds. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:
+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. We folded in [[Twenty-seven Taiwanese words beginning with the backquote|the backquoted words]], for example ''{{x|`lie}}'' was counted as ''{{x|lix}}''. Then we counted the frequency of each sound with Python's collections.Counter, which tells the number of homophonic dictionary rows, and got 1,800 distinct sounds. Then we used Counter again on those results and found:
 * 1853 rows (63%) are homophonic, 1083 rows (37%) are not
 * The most homophonic sounds are: ''{{x|lie}}'', ''{{x|ky}}'', and ''{{x|køf}}'', which match 7 rows each, followed by ''{{x|cie}}'', ''{{x|kafn}}'', ''{{x|kefng}}'', ''{{x|sefng}}'', ''{{x|kaf}}'', ''{{x|kaq}}'', ''{{x|zngf}}'', ''{{x|ti}}'', ''{{x|sw}}'', ''{{x|leeng}}'', and ''{{x|kerng}}'', which match 6 rows each