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Vowel Sounds Ranked in order of Frequency of Occurrence?

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Nehmo Sergheyev

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Dec 23, 2015, 6:45:56 PM12/23/15
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When I studied Gregg Shorthand http://gregg.angelfishy.net/analphbt.shtml , I learned there were 12 common vowel sounds used in the system. These vowel sounds aren't universally represented by the same letters. Sometimes "A" may represent a particular sound, and sometimes "E" instead may be used for that sound.
Letters (representing both consonant and vowel sounds) in English themselves have a ranking in terms of frequency of usage http://goo.gl/WkeBP ,
EtAOInrshdlUcnfYwgobvjxqhz, and vowel sounds can also be ranked in order of frequency.

That's my request. Is there some list of vowel sound frequency ranking? I mean the sounds, not the letters.

The reason I'm asking is that I'm learning this number memory system http://academictips.org/memory/noshape.html . Using this technique requires assembling consonant frameworks and filling-in the frameworks with meaningless vowels. For easier recall, the article suggests using the same pattern of vowels every time, and it offers the standard "A" as a first choice, followed by "E" etc. (AEIOU-Y). That's a pattern I could use, but I'm thinking about using the most frequent first and so on down the line. In that way, I would be more likely to hit upon real words.

Nehmo Sergheyev

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Dec 24, 2015, 1:05:25 AM12/24/15
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Incorrect URL on the memory system. The correct one is
http://academictips.org/memory/majorsys.html .
They call it The Major Memory System.
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