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The full transcript, from NYT, of everything that got said: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/politics/state-of-the-union-transcript-biden.html

Like, this is the post-event full transcript — as opposed to the scripted version of the prepared remarks, which TIME and others posted. (The way you can tell is that "Snickers" gets mentioned in the full version.)

So, you can use this to check — the answer was definitely "T".

For those who are interested, here are the other markets in this set:

• (1) "Will EVERY letter be used at least TWICE?" - https://manifold.markets/JamesF/will-every-letter-in-the-alphabet-b

• (2) "What'll the most-used LETTER be?" - https://manifold.markets/JamesF/what-letter-will-be-used-the-most-i

• (3) "What will the most-used CONSONANT be?" - https://manifold.markets/JamesF/what-consonant-will-be-used-the-mos

• (4) "What will the LEAST-used letter be?" - https://manifold.markets/JamesF/what-letter-will-be-used-the-least (Like, the "least-used" question is by FAR the most tricky and most exciting.)

It's T.

If it's not T, it's N.
In any piece of normal English text that's long enough, letter frequency becomes REALLY predictable.

ETAOIN SHRDLU is a way to remember the frequency (but I think C's actually above U)

@PaintspotInfez Fascinating acronym!