"Abnormal" words

[Mark Knowles]

Good work!

Thanks a lot. This is only the first draft as I say so there is more to be done.

And if I could suggest something...

Personally I believe in multi scribe hypothesis by Lisa Fagin Davies and others.
It would be interesting to see these words assigned to each of the scribes identified by Lisa.

My intuition tells me that if there were several scribes, they weren't "equal". Some were more experienced, some were less experienced. And there was probably some "leader" among them.

I would also agree that some of "weird" words are probably scribal errors.

I think it very plausible that some weird words are scribal errors or misinterpretations of spacing. However, I think this needs to be argued and justified on a case by case basis as one obviously can't generalise about all words.

So it would be interesting to see if all scribes generate the same number of weird words, relative to the amount of text they produce. The one who generates the least of them was probably the most experienced one.

I think your suggestions is an interesting one and one that I had thought of before.