The oddities of the bigram "ed"

[Dunsel]

Nice graphs! I think I can see edy in that last one.

It's the orange dot on the far right in the trigram charts I posted earlier.

Makes one wonder what these "edy" clusters are. It would be so neat if they corresponded to "ain" clusters, but your very first graph shows nicely how that cannot be the case. There should be more outliers then.

There aren't any I've found.  The chart below has the top 1000 bigrams.  Almost all are low count and on a limited number of pages. (the blob in the bottom left corner)

So "edy" is new. Unless the thing it corresponds to in A-pages also occurs a bit on most B-pages. Then it wouldn't register as an outlier.

If by definition of new, you mean came into existence in a later production stage of the book then I'll say no (evidence in the next post).  edy existed once in my 0ed pages (Currier A) and in that one instance, it was in a hapax token.  Here are the 6 times the bigram ed appeared in Currier A.  (I didn't double check but they all should be Currier A).

F8R    : shesed
F11R   : ded
F56R   : esedy <---
F67V2  : taedaiin
F90V2  : ofchedol
F93R   : sheedom


Here's the top 1000 bigrams across the entire Voynich.  Thee are no other outliers like ed.

   


Edit:  And you made me wonder so I had to see.  Here's the trigram ain.  It's on about 65% of the pages but it's count is less than 1/8 that of ed.  So it blends in with the crowd.

   

And here's iin.  It's count is close to ed but, it's on just about every page (thank you daiin).