Currier A and B

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I think one problem with saying whether a label or a word occurs only in Currier A or B, is that you may not be capturing the real difference.

For example, [okedy] occurs 113 or so times, but only in B. And [otedy] occurs about 150 times, again only in B. Yet the Currier B "feature" is not either of those words but rather the bigram [ed], which is over 125 times more common in B than A.

It is better to start with these two character combinations as they are more fundamental to whether a word appears in one language or another. They are also, hopefully, more diagnostic of what the difference between A and B will turn out to be.

To discriminate between Currier A and B with EVA bigrams statistics only, the following are probably the best: "ed", "hd", "lG" where G is a gallows glyph, especially "k". They are common in B, almost absent in A. Apparently there is no bigram that is common in A and almost absent in B.

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From these visual statistics there are few intermediate pages between A and B:
- You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : 4 "hd", 2 "ed"
- You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : first paragraph A, second paragraph B?
- f58 is special: it's both intermediate between A and B and a move sideways: the frequency of "al" and "ly" is higher than on any other folio.
- f88v: 3 "ed", f89r1: 3 "ed", f89r2: first paragraph has 4 "ed", last paragraph looks like "pure" A.