I wonder if there is a difference in the likelihood of a letter actually being used at the beginning of a word and the frequency of that letter in the alphabet.

In other words, one might assume there is a 1 - 26 chance of "F" starting a word at the beginning of a poem. Then, for a "u", the odds would start to add up fact, but is there a 1 - 26 chance that "u" is used at the beginning of a word.

Clearly not. If it were, there would be as many pages for "u" in the dictionary as there are for, say, "c".

It would be fun to know what the odds would be of there NOT being acrostics out there. For instance, there may be a 1 in 2,000,000,000 chance of any particular stanza having an acrostic, but there is a virtual 1.0 probability of there being SOME acrostic around.

Sorta like the lottery. May be a 1 in 2 billion chance of any particular person winning, but there's a virtual certainty that, sooner or later, someone will win.

Arf