Stop being analitical!

[Torsten]

The idea that when d is prefixed by o it becomes a gallows is an extraordinary claim! What's your proof?

That this type of relation exists is something the statistic tells us. Beside dain the word type okain is frequent and not the word type odain. Beside dal the word type okol is common etc.:

daiin (863)  odaiin (60)  okaiin (212)  otaiin (154)
dain  (211)  odain  (18)  okain  (144)  otain  ( 96)
dar   (318)  odar   (24)  okar   (129)  otar   (141)
dal   (253)  odal   (13)  okal   (138)  otal   (143)
dam   ( 98)  odam   ( 6)  okam   ( 26)  otam   ( 47)
dor   ( 73)  odor   ( 8)  okor   ( 34)  otor   ( 46)
dol   (117)  odol   ( 2)  okol   ( 82)  otol   ( 86)

One observation was that when k and t are prefixed with o, both become more frequent. My explanation for this observation was that this happens since o + d is normally transformed into o + gallow.

The idea that when d is prefixed by o it becomes a gallows is an extraordinary claim! What's your proof?

One factor is therefore  that t is preferred in line initial position and qo- is not. But this is indeed not the only reason. Another reason is that qo- is far more common in Currier B and that most of the qo- words in Currier B are starting with qok-. Words starting with qok- are therefore in general more common then words starting with qot-:

You're simply restating the observation. You can't say that one word is more common than another because it occurs more often. 

Why is qo more common in Currier B? Why is qok more common in Currier B?

Also, what has this got to do with your earlier claim about space and gallows preference? Now you're saying it's not that important? What?

I say that word types starting with qok- occur more frequently in Currier B then word types starting with qot-. There are multiple word types starting with qok-. Therefore it is a pattern and not just an observation for a single word.

Why are chedy and qokeedy common in Currier B and did not exist in Currier A? Why are chol and chor more common in Currier A then in Currier B? The simple answer is that this is the way the VMS works. Everywhere something is more common then somewhere else. This is true for line positions, for pages, for quires and also for Currier A and B.

To explain why qokal is more frequent then okal and qotal is less frequent then otal Currier B is indeed more important then the preference of t in line initial position. The overall statistics is summing up all the details. One detail is that qok- is more frequent in Currier B then qot-. Another detail is that t occurs more frequently then expected in line initial position. There are a lot more details. If you wan't to understand all the details you need detailed statistics for line positions, for quires and also for Currier A and B. If you want to understand the big picture behind the VMS you have to look onto the statistics for the whole VMS.