Re: VMs: Re: split gallows

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

At 12:09 27/06/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> 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".)

Pace Steve Ekwall, c<gallows>h could well denote a cryptographic extension 
to an earlier system (ie, one which used only non-struck-through gallows). 
So, read them instead as "a set of four extended gallows tokens".

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


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