Hi David,
thank you for sharing your results!
I have been using linear correlation between occurrences in pages as a measure of the probability that two words are related. It's nothing particularly sophisticated, but at least it's a quantitative measure.
The variants you list are either quite rare (1 or 2 occurrences) or apparently unrelated with otol.
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(0.0170 correlation)
qotol is just a little better (and also features a reduplicated occurrence):
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(0.1457)
A word that seems possibly correlated with otol is the o-less "variant" tol:
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(0.3120)
A non-otol example of more clearly correlated words could be pchedy and opchedy
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(0.6710)
The presence / absence of o- (otol/tol, opchedy/pchedy) seems to me the word variation that is most clearly explained by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This really seems to be phonetic in nature.
I think this is an area in which a huge amount of information still has to be extracted.
thank you for sharing your results!
I have been using linear correlation between occurrences in pages as a measure of the probability that two words are related. It's nothing particularly sophisticated, but at least it's a quantitative measure.
The variants you list are either quite rare (1 or 2 occurrences) or apparently unrelated with otol.
See for instance: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(0.0170 correlation)
qotol is just a little better (and also features a reduplicated occurrence):
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(0.1457)
A word that seems possibly correlated with otol is the o-less "variant" tol:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(0.3120)
A non-otol example of more clearly correlated words could be pchedy and opchedy
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(0.6710)
The presence / absence of o- (otol/tol, opchedy/pchedy) seems to me the word variation that is most clearly explained by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This really seems to be phonetic in nature.
I think this is an area in which a huge amount of information still has to be extracted.