RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

["Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not assume that the gallows are a letter which appears infrequently in the word interior but frequently as an afffix, say an honorific?  Jim Comegys

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> From: 	Nick Pelling
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> Sent: 	Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:27 PM
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> Subject: 	RE: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> At 18:35 28/08/2003 -0400, Larry Roux wrote:
> >I stand by what I said.  Unless I totally misunderstand what you are 
> >saying, but I see 'f' and 'p' all over the place, not just at the 
> >beginning of lines or even the beginning of words.  That was just the 
> >first page I looked at.  The second page I looked at (f36r) has the same 
> >thing.  The third page (f48r) again, 'f' and/or 'p'  within the text.
> >
> >Am I missing something?  3 pages I looked at and all three had 'f' and/or 
> >'p' within the text.  I could look more, but feel I must be 
> >misunderstanding something.
> 
> f114r I've described, and f36r clearly has two separate paragraphs, with 
> those single-leg gallows only on the top line of each paragraph - so Rene 
> is correct for those cases.
> 
> However, you are right that f48r does indeed have a single one (near the 
> end of the 3rd line). f30r also has one in mid-para (para 1, line 4): f30v 
> has two in mid-para (line 8): f33r has two (lines 4 and 5), and so on - so 
> you are correct here.
> 
> While it seems to me that the majority of these single-leg gallows do occur 
> in the first line of paragraphs, it's clear that they do also occur 
> elsewhere - would anyone care to calculate the relative frequency of these 
> two scenarios, so that we can talk about this based on hard data?
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 
> 
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