Starred Parags: the last two words of parags are all distinct
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here is a curious thing about the 327 parags of the Starred Parags section:

No two parags end with the same pair of words.

If we look only at the last word of each parag,  we still get 271 distinct words.

Of these, 236 occur in only one parag. Those that occur at the end of two or more parags, and their counts, are 

  7 chedy

  5 cheody
  5 lchedy
  5 qokeey

  4 otain

  3 alkam
  3 cheey
  3 chey
  3 keedy
  3 otaiin

  2 aiinal
  2 am
  2 choty
  2 daiin
  2 lam
  2 lkaiin
  2 lkeey
  2 lky
  2 okaiin
  2 okain
  2 okal
  2 okaly
  2 okeedy
  2 olaiin
  2 olam
  2 olor
  2 olshedy
  2 oraiin
  2 oram
  2 oteey
  2 qokaiin
  2 qokain
  2 shedy
  2 sheody
  2 shol


It was already known that the first words of parags tended to be unique, but that was sort of expected because they probably were the name of the plant or whatever that the parag was about.  As is typically the case with herbals and materiae medicae.  

But it is intriguing that the last words are mostly unique too...

All the best, --stolfi
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Starred Parags: the last two words of parags are all distinct - by Jorge_Stolfi - 20-01-2026, 02:53 PM

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