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#TIL in English Q is more common than Z:
for l in {a..z}; do echo -n "$l "; ag -c $l Moby\ Dick.txt ;done
In Moby Dick, q is 2.5 times as common as z. (1570:634)
Oh, that is surely just #Queequeg.
So, with the famous harpooner Roger:
sed 's/Queequeg/Roger/g' <Moby\ Dick.txt >Moby\ Dick_lowq.txtIt’s still 5:3 (1064:634)