02-06-2019, 04:30 PM
I think he wrote an e like the e at the end of the word and then an i like the i's he writes and wrote them touching one another and the i slightly bigger than the e, of course the two letters look similar to a double storeyed a, but are not. I think he had just dipped his pen in and and something went wrong. Just follow the strokes. I think you can see it better in in the Voyager scans than in the scans now on the Beinecke site. If you don't see that, you don't see it, no reason to make an issue out of it.

