2,650+ SIMILAR IRISH & FINNISH WORDS on Web Page

[Tom Wier]

Anthony Appleyard wrote:

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>   (2) What work has been done on the statistics of the likely proportion
> of accidental resemblances between words in any two completely unrelated
> languages?

Try the following link which discusses just that:

<http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm>

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