Re: VMs: qo-words

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 4:12 pm, Rene Zandbergen
> wrote:
> > In the plot correlating words with and without
> > preceding q, there are two dots far above the main
> > cloud. These are words starting with o- for which
> > the qo- variant is relatively rare. Do you
> > know which words these are?
> 
> I had the file here:
> the word pairs are qol (153) / ol (570) and qor (22)
> / or (392).

Of course, yes. qol and qor are interesting words, 
because they occur far less frequently than the 
letter and digraph frequencies would predict.

Interesting that the same rule applies to two
similar words. Also, both l and r are early Arabic
digits (4 and 2 respectively).
I never looked at 'qor'', but remember that the
usage of 'qol' is quite restricted in the VMs
(one or two sections only).

Clearly it means something.

Cheers, Rene

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