FW: Gallows G characters

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: GC [mailto:glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:15 AM
To: Philip Neal
Subject: RE: Gallows G characters


sorry, but I won't be using EVA in any of my
posts, so I'll use a descriptive form.

This is interesting.  G forms are followed by the
"c" character as a stand-alone "c" only 6 times
out of 424 occurrences.  The occurrence counts for
the two forms of standard gallows are as follows:

H=179 of 1464   12.2% (double looped gallows)
K=377 of 1899   19.8% (single looped gallows)

Followers for the G form are:
CHARACTER    Count   %
	1	  243  57.3%  (picnic table)
	o	   58  13.6%  (o character)
	9	   41   9.6%  (9 character)
	a	   40   9.4%  (a character)
	3	   24   5.6%  (picnic with curlie)
	8	    9   2  %  (8 character)
	c	    6   1  %  (c character)

Anything above roughly 6% is starting to rise
above the noise level.  While this count is highly
significant, it still doesn't rule out homophones,
since the picnic table is a "cc" character form.
The "cc" follower gives us a count for the two
gallows as follows:

		H followed by "cc" = 471 of 1464   34.4%
		K followed by "cc" = 438 of 1899   27.8%

These counts aren't as high as the count for G,
but they're significant enough not to rule out
character homophones.  In fact this may be used to
further connect the picnic table with the "cc"
character form.  It appears that a more detailed
breakdown of these characters and their usage is
in order.

GC

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Neal
[mailto:philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:46 AM
To: glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; voynich@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Gallows G characters





>The standard gallows exists in two forms, a
double
>loop and a single loop.  The G gallows exists in
>two forms, the double loop and the single loop.
>The gallows/picnic therefore exists in four
forms,
>one for each of the above.  The standard gallows
>forms exhibit roughly the same behavior, as does
>the four forms of the gallows/picnic.  The G
>gallows form is an odd duck, and appears to me to
>be a homophone of the standard gallows set.

I take it that 'G gallows' refers to the
characters
transcribed as 'p' (double loop) and 'f' (single
loop)
in EVMT. It is important to note that these
characters
are very seldom followed by 'e', unlike the other
gallows characters 't' and 'k', as was first
noticed
by Currier. This makes it unlikely that the G
gallows
are homophones of the more frequent forms.

The way in which the frequency of words and
characters
varies depending on position in the line and
paragraph
is a considerable mystery and any serious claim to
a
decipherment must explain it.

Philip Neal




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