List of "weird" vords

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Has someone mapped out the distribution of abnormal words throughout the manuscript?

Here are some literal maps of the distribution of hapax legomena.

I used the Cuva representation of paragraph text in RF1a-n.txt, as generated by bitrans.  Words with uncertain characters were removed, as well as paragraphs shorter than five lines.  Of 33 954 remaining word tokens, 5 015 were unique.

In the following plots, the coordinates are labeled from the upper left corner by line number (rows) and ordinal position of the first character of a word (columns).  Word counts are binned into 25-line x 1-character cells.

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The left panel shows the absolute number of hapax per cell;  the right shows their fractional density relative to all words in the cell.  The bunching and antibunching of density in the first few columns is a consequence of indexing the words by their first character.  The only large-scale pattern seems to be a slightly lower density in the Bio section.

For a collective pagewise distribution, all pages were stacked together to obtain the total counts in each 1-line x 1-character cell.  The fractional plot usefully corrects for the lower number of words generally at large coordinate values:

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(Blue values are greater than the scale shown.)  A feature appearing here is greater density in the first line, and perhaps toward the ends of lines.  The same can be seen when all paragraphs are stacked and sampled in 1-line x 5-character cells.  On this grid, greater density at the beginning of lines is also visible:

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When the paragraph coordinates are rescaled as rightwardness/downwardness, it becomes clear that the line ends also have a greater density of unique words:

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The few deviations from uniformity in these plots may simply correspond to known quirks of line and paragraph extremities (but quirks of the calculation are always possible).