11-01-2026, 12:54 PM
Hi Stolfi,
You say that "Another source of 'unusual spellings' may be the prefixes o and y that are sometimes attached to the word, sometimes separated by a space of variable width."
That could possibly be the situation as to whether it can be contested that there is a space separating the prefix. However if there is no evidence of any such a space I think one must careful in assuming that there is. I have tried to pay attention to spacing when defining words, but given the variable spacing in the manuscript it is certainly the cases that my spacing interpretation may be contested in any specific given instance.
You say that "Another source of 'unusual spellings' may be the prefixes o and y that are sometimes attached to the word, sometimes separated by a space of variable width."
That could possibly be the situation as to whether it can be contested that there is a space separating the prefix. However if there is no evidence of any such a space I think one must careful in assuming that there is. I have tried to pay attention to spacing when defining words, but given the variable spacing in the manuscript it is certainly the cases that my spacing interpretation may be contested in any specific given instance.