(29-06-2020, 03:53 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.These examples all have in common that one of the words in each group is responsible for at least 95% of all instances.
It doesn't seem useful to wonder if the rare cases are transliteration errors, or scribal errors.
They are simply rare, for whatever reason.
Rare words occur in a systematic way. The word frequency distribution behaves as expected according to Zipf's law (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Also rare words usually follow the known constraints in the combinations of symbols (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). 'Isolated' words (i.e. without any similar word type) usually appear just once, while for the most frequent types also many similar words exists (Timm & Schinner 2020, p. 6).
One counter example is for instance the word [chedy]. [chedy] is rare in Currier A but it is the most frequent word in Currier B (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Without knowing Currier B [chedy] would probably be seen as scribal error of [cheody] or [chey].