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VMs: comparison of word changes



I've done a quick analysis of similar words that appear together 
and there are some interesting findings.  (numbers below!).   

For this experiment the definition of similar was where the 
difference between successive words was a single insertion or 
removal of a sequence of characters. 

The appearance and disappearance of specific prefixes is fairly 
balanced.  Similarly with suffices.  Some sequences are only 
prefixes.  Nothing shocking here.

The INTERESTING thing is that whilst there were 184 insertions
to the middle of words, there were only 6 removals from the middle.

I don't know what to think of this... 

Marke
  


303 exact matches

772 addition of new sequence
------------------
426 added to start
184 added to middle
162 added to end

562 removal of sequence of chars
------------------
410 from start
  6 from middle
140 from end



AS = Added to Start       RS = Removed from Start
AE = Added to End         RE = Remove from End
IM = Inserted to Middle   RM = Removed from Middle

	AS	RS	AE	RE	IM	RM
a	3	2	-	-	-	-
d	14	27	3	2	22	-
e	-	-	-	-	18	3
f	-	-	-	1	1	-
h	-	-	1	-	2	-
i	-	-	-	-	9	3
k	12	8	-	-	12	-
l	11	6	10	2	7	-
m	-	-	-	2	-	-
o	18	25	5	-	10	-
p	2	3	-	-	2	-
q	45	44	-	-	-	-
r	-	2	1	4	-	-
s	2	4	3	1	1	-
t	7	14	-	-	17	-
y	4	13	14	8	-	-

ch	25	21	-	-	9	-
ok	14	21	-	-	2	-
ot	19	19	-	-	-	-
qo	13	8	-	-	-	-
or	1	-	7	-	1	-
dy	1	-	7	5	-	-
ol	10	2	5	4	-	-








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