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RE: VMs: Currier A and B

Hi Rene,

At 03:58 18/07/2003 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote: 
> In fact, I've just gone through the whole of
> (balneological) quire 13,
 [... ]
>   <qol> also appears on nearly every page in
> the quire as well... perhaps this is a dialect
> thing?

I would say so. Look at:
http://www.voynich.nu/extra/lang.html
There's a table in Courier font and Currier alphabet,
so check the frequency of the word 4OE (Eva qol).

What would interest me in a case like this is:
where are the few occurrences of this word outside
the Bio section, and what can we deduce from it?

<qol> first appears in f18v.5 (once), and <l> also appears on line 4 in <ydl>

<qol> next appears in f19r.11 (once), and <l> appears on line 8 in <dorl>.

There are a few other mentions scattered here and there, but the vast bulk of the <qol>'s appear (as I mentioned) in the balneological section, though with a good few in the starred paragraphs as well.

This might well suggest a direct dialectical link between free-standing <l> (ie, not in <ol> or <al>) and <qol>... though it would need rather more evidence than I currently have. :-o

Unsurprisingly (given that I'm distrustful of VMS words as having meaning over "anti-meaning"), I'm most interested in the fundamental dialectical differences at the letter/pair level, rather than at the word level. This unpaired <l> motif is a good example of the kind of thing I'd hope to see uncovered in a comparison of dialects.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: I'm sure that GC has noted this, but there's a interesting-looking loop over the <o> of the <qo> at the start of line 7 on f19r... what could it indicate? :-) 


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