I performed the experiment as described above:
1. find all lines with a short word at the end in the VMS-corpus ( 1 to 2 letters, 537 )
2. Append the found word as prefix to the first word of the following line.
3. search the resulting words in the VMS dictionary and count their occurrences.
![[Image: merged_list.png]](https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mwille2/VMS/merged_list.png)
edit: Since I used again the corpus where all lines with only one word were deleted, the result is only approximate. One could also check the result again with selected folios.
The hits under 3. were also counted if the word occurred within a longer word.
1. find all lines with a short word at the end in the VMS-corpus ( 1 to 2 letters, 537 )
2. Append the found word as prefix to the first word of the following line.
3. search the resulting words in the VMS dictionary and count their occurrences.
![[Image: merged_list.png]](https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mwille2/VMS/merged_list.png)
edit: Since I used again the corpus where all lines with only one word were deleted, the result is only approximate. One could also check the result again with selected folios.
The hits under 3. were also counted if the word occurred within a longer word.


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