RE: VMs: Language A/B in quire 7...?

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've recently been looking at quire 7: while the outermost bifolio 
> (f49+f56) is without a doubt Language A, and the next bifolio in (f50+f55) 
> is Language B, to my eyes the two central bifolios (f51+f54, and f52+f53) 
> look much more like Language B than Language A - but this is at variance 
> with the interlinear etc, where the central two are both marked up as 'A1'.

I think you are on to something here. Folios 50 and 55 stand out
as language B because, unlike the rest of the quire, they contain
words ending in edy. But 51 and 53 (which are not the same bifolio)
stand out for the different reason that they have a higher frequency
of ody than the other folios: see the attached table. I increasingly
agree with Rene that the idea of exactly two languages is an over-
simplification. I have other evidence for this: e.g. the nymphs section
totally lacks words ending in ody, but in other "language B" sections
ody is merely rare, not totally absent.

Philip Neal

	frequency			percent
	qo	edy	ody	words	qo	edy	ody

f49r	16	0	3	106	15	0	2  ---------------|
f49v	11	0	2	157	7	0	1  -------------| |
f50r	11	6	3	80	13	7	3  -----------| | |
f50v	9	13	3	87	10	14	3  ---------| | | |
f51r	13	0	9	80	16	0	11 -------| | | | |
f51v	15	0	10	68	22	0	14 -----| | | | | |
f52r	8	0	2	54	14	0	3  ---| | | | | | |
f52v	6	0	3	68	8	0	4  -\ | | | | | | |
f53r	9	0	3	50	18	0	6  -/ | | | | | | |
f53v	6	0	9	68	8	0	13 ---| | | | | | |
f54r	2	0	4	96	2	0	4  -----| | | | | |
f54v	13	0	4	83	15	0	4  -------| | | | |
f55r	9	5	3	116	7	4	2  ---------| | | |
f55v	8	4	4	90	8	4	4  -----------| | |
f56r	6	0	2	88	6	0	2  -------------| |
f56v	7	0	0	80	8	0	0  ---------------|

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