15-04-2021, 05:12 PM
Amazing fact about a possible English lipogram without "ABC":
English number names do not contain any of the letters "ABC" at all until the word "thousand".
A more or less standard Middle English dialect that used oon, not an, for "one", and thousend for "thousand", if the very large number names such as "milliard" and "billion" were not in general use in the early 15th century, could have had none of the letters "ABC" in any of its number names at all !
(An aside: People whose surnames begin with "Z" must love this "no ABC" theory of the Voynich manuscript. Revenge on alphabetical order!
)
Geoffrey S.
English number names do not contain any of the letters "ABC" at all until the word "thousand".
A more or less standard Middle English dialect that used oon, not an, for "one", and thousend for "thousand", if the very large number names such as "milliard" and "billion" were not in general use in the early 15th century, could have had none of the letters "ABC" in any of its number names at all !
(An aside: People whose surnames begin with "Z" must love this "no ABC" theory of the Voynich manuscript. Revenge on alphabetical order!
)Geoffrey S.
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