17-02-2026, 07:32 AM
Two points:
- my question about "eed" was related to the suggestion that "ed" might be a single unit. While this is tempting, this then leaves the question whether "eed" is another unit, or should be read as "e" + "ed". Neither seem satisfactory to me. (words ending -edy can also end -ey, or -eedy, or -eey)
- in the graph where the text has been chopped into equal size units, and the "ed" bigram moves much closer to the rest, were the page boundaries respected? I strongly suspect not, so the pages without "ed" have been 'contaminated' by contents from pages with the bigram.
On the second point, a related statistic is given on this page: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
in the table under "At the highest level". This gives the % of words including "ed" in the various sections, which is largely independent of the page length, which was the desired point.
- my question about "eed" was related to the suggestion that "ed" might be a single unit. While this is tempting, this then leaves the question whether "eed" is another unit, or should be read as "e" + "ed". Neither seem satisfactory to me. (words ending -edy can also end -ey, or -eedy, or -eey)
- in the graph where the text has been chopped into equal size units, and the "ed" bigram moves much closer to the rest, were the page boundaries respected? I strongly suspect not, so the pages without "ed" have been 'contaminated' by contents from pages with the bigram.
On the second point, a related statistic is given on this page: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
in the table under "At the highest level". This gives the % of words including "ed" in the various sections, which is largely independent of the page length, which was the desired point.
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