Floating gallows

[nablator]

The only place in [cheey] where we never find a gallows inserted to form a discrete word is at the very end.

Yes, gallows can move a lot, with strong preferences for the beginning, next to vowels (counting [c] and [h] as vowels, they function just like [e]). Insertion near or at the end is less frequent. I've been trying to find evidence for equivalences from statistics but the numbers ore often low and with these preferences there is no guarantee that equivalent forms will have similar frequencies.

The other case is when gallows fill a (usually large) space between words. Some conspicuous large spaces are left but many are filled with gallows.

I have a wonderful theory to explain almost everything but this is an introductory post for observations, I'll create a separate thread for the theory.