The oddities of the bigram "ed"

[Dunsel]

Excellent question.  You'd think that if ed exhibits that behavior then edy, would also.  But, it doesn't.

For clarity, could you show ed trigrams on the same graph as all other trigrams, just in a different color?

Given these charts are cut off at Y~0.5, I'm not sure how they relate to other trigrams.

Sorry about that, my charts are designed to automatically compress like that.  Here's what you asked for.

   

That's the top 100 trigrams when only looking at the pages with no ed.

   

That's the top 100 trigrams when only looking at pages with an ed.

And the one you really wanted to see.

   

That's trigrams across the entire Voynich.  The ones containing ed are orange.

So, ed is essentially the driving force behind all this.  Any trigram with a large count like edy (it's the orange dot on the far right) is going to fit into that same spot on the chart as ed .  But, if the trigram counts are low, any ed trigram will get buried in the cluster with all the other trigrams.