🇺🇸 Bewickwren 🇵🇹<p>The rarity of the letter 'e' is a sign that the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/codemakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codemakers</span></a> knew their stuff. <br>Because 'e' is the most common letter (in old as in modern French), it is what <a href="https://toot.community/tags/codeBreakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>codeBreakers</span></a> would be looking for first. <br>And the fake symbols were simply put in to sow more confusion.<br>While most symbols represented letters or combinations of letters, others represented whole words - like a needle for English King Henry VIII.<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Codes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codes</span></a><br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Ciphers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ciphers</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63757443" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/world-europe-6375</span><span class="invisible">7443</span></a></p>