(17-09-2017, 09:39 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm talking about digraphs, which is what we were discussing before. English spelling is irrelevant in Voynichese, so I assumed that's what we were talking about.
So tow, mow have a different digraph from cow, now in English.
If you were creating English afresh with a new script, one would naturally give those digraphs different letters, or indications of pronunciation.
David, since Emma brought up the point about how certain letters are associated with ng (in English it is always preceded by a vowel) in response to my post about positional rigidity in the VMS, I was mainly thinking about pair behavior in the VMS (in terms of glyphs, not necessarily sounds, which is also a good discussion, but wasn't specifically what I was responding to when I saw Emma's post).
Maybe we need a separate thread about how sounds change when the order of adjacent letters change. This one might get gnarly if we try to discuss them both together and sound correspondence is an interesting topic.