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Language contains an internal frame of regularities that are hard to extirpate. Particularly resistant are repeated patterns.
No matter how resistant the cryptogram, all that is really needed is an entry, the identification of one word, or of three or four letters.
Helen Fouché Gaines 1939
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Samuel Woodhull and Robert Townsend provided in 1779 General Washington with valuable informations from New York that was occupied by English troops; they used as cover names CULPER SR. und CULPER JR., (Sect. 4.4.1). Was this shortened from CULPEPER, which is sometimes used in the cryptographic literature for the construction of keys? Edmund Culpeper, 1660–1738, was a famous English instrument maker.
The search for repeated patterns will be taken up again in Sect. 17.4.
Richard V. Andree, Nonpattern Words of 3 to 14 Letters, Raja Press, Norman, Oklahoma 1982.
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Bauer, F.L. (2000). Anatomy of Language: Patterns. In: Decrypted Secrets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04024-9_13
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