[Fearlesspancake]

I discovered [Yublin](https://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2007/06/yublin-shorthand-for-...) a while back which set out to do exactly this: create 1-3 letter shorthands for the 600 most common words in English. And sure enough, "the -> t" is at the top of the list.

[fouronnes3]

That's really cool. If using a QMK or other configurable keyboard, I could see this being on a dedicated modifier+chords.