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Where do the standard "Letter" translations for vms come from?
For instance, how did someone arrive at the gallows being a "t" and the 9
being a y, etc.
Just curious as some of the characters appear familiar from some French
documents I have been translating but they relate to other letters. For
instance, the 8 was often used in French to replace the "oui" sound (French 8 =
huit, so this made sense). The "k" gallows appears but is "double
l" and the "t" gallows is "g". etc.
I am not implying that the document is French by any means, but it
does seem to look a lot like old Italian, with French characteristics
(moreso from the time that the French churches left Latin behind and
started writing in French - so the n and m look a lot like what you call ii and
iin).
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