I seem to remember something like this in a book called "Quotes, Damned
Quotes" by John Bibby. Perhaps someone on the list has a copy?
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> Subject: QUERY: normal wordgram - help required to find it
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> Someone once crafted a sentence or two about the normal
> distribution, and
> laid the words out to look a bit like one, something like:
>
> X
> XXX
> XXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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> It contains fulsome praise for this distribution.
>
> I can't find it, although I know it is to be found in a footnote in a
> textbook somewhere on my shelves.
>
> Can anyone help me with the words, and if possible the source?
>
> Thanks!
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