Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

Am I correct to conclude that the German entries keep following the established pattern? That is, potentially interesting April and August, but the tradeoff is "Mertz" and folk names for six months?

I would say so, yes. April, may, and august are still the only matches. However, it really feels like the circle is narrowing in. On one side of the border in NE france, you have higher scoring places like Metz, and on the other side in SW germany there are "high scoring" areas like constance and swabian dialect speaking areas. I've seen remarkably few manuscripts from luxembourg, switzerland, or Basel (so far) so the map is not yet filled in by any means. 

I'm also looking for cases where the author decides to mix their sequences, in case that's what the VMS is. I''ve just added one that starts off with mercz, abrill, may, and then switches to latin for the rest for no apparent reason.
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~1500AD, Germany S, Neuburg an der Donau

Regarding au/ou/ö for August: I agree that these may have been interchangeable in some areas. But pronunciation is just one aspect, we're also looking at spelling because we know exactly which spelling the Month Name Writer used. While writing "au" would have been feasible almost anywhere, ö certainly isn't. On the other hand, "ou" is closer to "au" because it's a digraph without diacritics.

100% agree, it's just if we find an otherwise perfect sequence except with ögst, i'm calling it a match