(19-02-2021, 02:55 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.8) "The sequence qo is represented as qo in large part because q never appears in the text except before o" (p. 291).
There are numerous counter examples. There are for instance 66 instances of 'qe', 23 instances of 'qc', and 7 instances of 'qa'.
I agree with this also. There are numerous counter-examples. Here are some examples (I just grabbed a screenful; I did not include all of them). There are a number of cases were 4'o occurs (there is a macron between 4 and o). There are some where the 4 is constructed with a long stem. There are quite a few where 4 is followed by a variety of other glyphs. And there are some that I think of as a "soft-4" where the loop is so rounded it almost looks like y except that it has a straight descender.
![[Image: Examplesof4o.png]](https://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Examplesof4o.png)
In the past, I have suggested that one possible explanation for 4o being common is that 4 is frequently placed before o-tokens. This is different from 4o being a pair (it might be a ligature but that is different from a linguistic or symbolic pair). Or... there may be both.