(31-07-2017, 08:30 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(31-07-2017, 07:17 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My count gives these results:
lkeedy occurs 40 times, 32 of which (80%) follow y
olkeedy occurs 42 times, 12 of which (29%) follow y
Hey, I recognize that pattern!
I suppose it raises the questions of:
a) whether lkeedy can be considered apart from olkeedy; and,
b) if their distributions differ, can that be assigned to the differing distribution of words ending y?
I agree! This does look like the kind of phonetic transformation you have discussed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
a) I believe that the numbers above suggest that lkeedy and olkeedy are related. To add some detail:
Only 4 characters occur before lkeedy:
d: once
o: 3 times
l: 4 times
y: 32 times
lkeedy never is line-initial
7 characters appear before olkeedy:
k: once
o: once
s: twice
l: 5 times
r: 6 times
n: 11 times
y: 12 times
3 occurrences of olkeedy are line-initial
1 is a label
46% of the folios (counting both sides) that contain lkeedy also contain olkeedy.
The two words seem to share the same "macro-context" but to behave differently on the basis of the local-context (line position / preceding word ending).
b)
lkeedy - quire13: 5 occurrences / quire20: 32 occurrences
olkeedy - quire13: 17 occurrences / quire20: 17 occurrences
[Edit: since only the number of lkeedy varies between q13 and q20, this doesn't seem to depend on the distribution of -y]
The predominance of lkeedy in quire20 is largely due to the single page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which counts 14 occurrences (11 of which follow -y). Could it just be that the page contains a number of similar expressions?