27-01-2021, 11:14 AM
It might be worth mentioning that the tail-modifier scheme described by Cham is not specific to his system. It is a basic aspect of medieval calligraphy. In languages that use Latin scribal conventions, macrons could stand in for missing letters (similar to the modern apostrophe), and sometimes they connected a straight macron to the last character if the missing characters were near the end of the word (so it looks like a tail) for speed of writing. In other words, the VMS glyph-shape at the end of ain is common at the ends of words in medieval scripts.