We know from Patrick Feaster’s research (e.g. his 2022 Malta paper You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) that ch- words are relatively rare both at line start at line end. Their frequency peaks immediately after the first word in a line (positions 2 and 3) and then decreases as one moves rightward along the line. It’s very clear that ch- words are not just being squeezed at the end of lines: in that scenario, they would be particularly frequent at line end.
It’s also probably worth remembering that the frequency of words containing ch (as a prefix or not) is not lower at line start than in other positions. But words starting with ych- dch- are 10 times more frequent at line start than elsewhere (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.); they account for almost half of the line-start words that contain ‘ch’.
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It’s also probably worth remembering that the frequency of words containing ch (as a prefix or not) is not lower at line start than in other positions. But words starting with ych- dch- are 10 times more frequent at line start than elsewhere (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.); they account for almost half of the line-start words that contain ‘ch’.
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