"Abnormal" words

[tavie]

My reading is that the Scribe wrote the a slightly disconnected as two strokes ei (a glitch that he seems to have made dozens of times), and then the Retracer who restored the text turned that e into an i....

....  The first strange glyphs was originally a normal r (you can see bits of the faint original ink) but was mangled into that weirdo by a Retracer.

..And then you have the errors added by the Retracers who, not knowing the alphabet, often mangled the original faint glyphs as they retraced them.   Like that last example above.  (And this retracing is not just a fringe theory; you should take it as a fact, even if some desperately refuse to admit it...)

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