The oddities of the bigram "ed"

[Dunsel]

What is the average size of a page in your plots?  Culpeper's herbal has on average ~3900 letters per "page". 

All the best, --stolfi

Culpepers. I already had a normalized copy I was going to use on my website that I got from Gutenberg.  I typically strip all punctuation, lower case and then split the text into 100 word groups, something close to herbal page sizes.  For these, I strip out all Gutenberg headers and footers and then go in and remove any transcription notes, publishers notes, etc. so I'm just testing the raw text from the author.

And here's a link to that treatsie.  It's not terribly long but the use of language is period correct. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

   

I also had a Gutenberg copy of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili from I think 1592 in my corpus to test collection, just to throw in some old English.

   


Edit: It took some digging.  The rk bigram in Culpepers isn't in the top 200.  I had to do a top 300 plot to find it.