The oddities of the bigram "ed" pt. 3 : It's not just "ed"

[Dunsel]

Thanks for the work!  Numbers are always good.  

However, let me repeat this advice: statistics of characters (bigrams, trigrams, etc.) can be only puzzling, not illuminating.  You can plot them in a thousand different ways, and will not conclude anything besides "something is different".

You are correct.  Words are like the concrete that creates the structure of the language.  But characters are like the sand that hold that concrete together.  There was this old saying about how good a salesman was, "He could sell sand to an Arab." As it turns out, Europeans are selling sand to Arabs.  Because the Arabian sand is blown across dunes it becomes rounded and smooth.  Whereas European sand is blocky, jagged, rough.  European sand is better for building concrete because it has more surface texture. Concrete with Arabian sand is more prone to collapse.  So, if you don't look at those little grains of sand, you'll never know if your structure will collapse.

Thanks again!