Schwarzenegger himself characterized the appearance of that acrostic a "wild coincidence".
1 such a coincidence is highly unlikely: Using the simplistic assumption that first letters of words are independent of each other if more than ten words are in between (line length in the Schwarzenegger letter) and calculating with the relative frequencies of first letters in the British National Corpus (Aston and Burnard, 1998), the probability for the acrostic in Figure 1 can be estimated at 1.15 • 10 −12 .