VMs: Re: split gallows

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of the split gallows with a "ch" on only one foot: has anyone 
advanced a theory about the combination of a gallows character with "ch" 
itself, that is, the intertwining of two free-standing characters? Three 
possibilities that come to mind off the bat are:

1.   That they represent a complex character like the two-character 
combination characters for "tz", "ck", etc. in the Fraktur alphabet for 
German.

2.   That, using the same logic as for the split gallows, the "cth" 
character represents "ch" + "t" + "ch".

3.   That these characters are somehow related to "sh", i.e. "ch" with a 
plume. (That is, that the plain gallows characters are a more elaborate 
type of "plume".)

Bruce

Bruce


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