Lipogrammatic text

[geoffreycaveney]

The more extreme version would be a lipogram that excludes all of the letters LANC from the text!

With such extreme constraints, there would be little wiggle-room for more constraints, but we actually see the opposite in the VMS: vord statistics and glyph mono- and bigrams statistics show an evolution and a lot of variation in frequency that stand out at the quire, page, sometimes even at the paragraph level. Some have surprisingly high frequencies, others surprisingly low. Here are some lipograms: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. don't have any EVA-e.

These pages without EVA [e] = Middle English "e" could represent an even more extreme version of this "Yorkist lipogram" that also excluded the "E" which is in "Lancaster" but not in "York".

This (0 frequency on a page) happens so often on bigrams that I had this idea that pages could be "lipogrammatically linked" to the next page by the absence of some common bigram.
For example:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : 0 al
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : 0 al
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : 0 dy
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. : 0 dy

Again, EVA [l] & [d] = Middle English "s", a letter which is in "Lancaster" but not in "York".

Just a hypothesis at this stage of course.