Re: Gallows G characters

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Voynich@Rand. Org" <voynich@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: Gallows G characters
>
> In my sample of 35,003 characters, folios
> 001r-052v, the G form occurs 424 times,
> representing about 1.2% of the total characters.
> Out of these 424 occurrences, it appears 105 times
> as the line initial character, meaning 24.76% of
> the time it is used to begin a line.  The most
> interesting thing is that 345 times out of these
> 424 characters, it occurs ONLY in the first line
> of a paragraph.  This is 81.36% of the time this
> character form occurs in the first line of a
> paragraph.  Now that takes some explaining!

    I've been biased into using these as indicators that a new paragraph
has started - 100% of the time, not 81.36%. Although some paragraphs
may not seem to be separated, I think it is a fairly safe bet to say that
the f/p gallows occur on all initial lines (of a paragraph)...

    Now, whether all initial lines have an f/p - I'm not sure. The line/page
initial character however seems to possess even more value... 25% of the
f/p's themselves are first character on a page. As a result of this single
gallows on the first word of a page - that word becomes a one-time token.

John.