The Impossibility of Double Gallows

[Emma May Smith]

How big the distance ( chars ) between any two gallows is can be graphically represented. Overall, the curve drops evenly. For the entire VMS it looks like this:


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Does this count spaces? And if so is there some way of representing spaces on the graph? Such as colour coding?

The thing is, not only do gallows almost never occur next to one another, relatively few words have two gallows. Thus the space between two gallows is based on the space between their occurrences in adjacent words. Given that gallows also uncommonly occur at the end of words, the common minimum would be something like: [Gy.G].