Mike slays the Self-Ref Monster (and changes diapers too!)

Sorry it took a few days to count all the occurrences of all 26 letters, my trusty ancient QuickBASIC is allergic to Vista, and I was cruising around Vermont for a couple of days.

But, naturally and as always, Mike was right on the nose. He took this self-ref monstrosity and computed:

This is my favorite English sentence, and it contains five a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-one e's, six f's, two g's, seven h's, sixteen i's, one j, one k, two l's, two m's, twenty-four n's, seventeen o's, one p, one q, nine r's, thirty-four s's, twenty-two t's, four u's, six v's, seven w's, six x's, six y's, and one z.

a 05 g 02 m 02 s 34 y 06
b 01 h 07 n 24 t 22 z 01
c 03 i 16 o 17 u 04
d 03 j 01 p 01 v 06
e 31 k 01 q 01 w 07
f 06 l 02 r 09 x 06