07-11-2026, 11:15 PM
From f1v. Last line, ZL reads "taor.chotchey.dal.chody <-> schody.pol.chodar". Looking at the scan, the p of "pol" looks written over something else, to me it was an e first and then turned into the p:
If thats right the fix makes sense. The space after schody is clear, so its not a liaison thing, its the word start:
- words almost never start with e: 76 of ~32k words in paragraph text (0.24%), and after a word ending in -y even less (0.18%). "eol" never occurs as a word.
- turning it into a gallows fixes it. Gallows open things (paragraphs, first word of lines) and "pol" is a real word (15 times).
What I dont get is why p. p is the first-line gallows. In the last line of a paragraph only ~0.4% of words start with p, and a word-initial p in the middle of a last line happens only 7 times in the whole text (f1v.10, f20v.11, f26v.9, f78r.43, f80v.6, f85r1.6, f86v6.19). k would be the normal choice there. And there were easier fixes: adding just one stroke to the e gives d, and "dol" is a common word (86 times, 3 times on this same page). Or "chol" (321, 5 times on f1v). After a -y, a word starting with d is ~14x more likely than one starting with p. He didnt take any of those, he wrote a p on top. So it looks like he wanted "pol" specifically, not just any valid word. A slip while copying? But this is a huge slip... p is absolutely different from e.
ZL doesnt flag this line as corrected. Has anyone noticed it before, or is it marked in another transliteration? Do you know other corrections like this?
If thats right the fix makes sense. The space after schody is clear, so its not a liaison thing, its the word start:
- words almost never start with e: 76 of ~32k words in paragraph text (0.24%), and after a word ending in -y even less (0.18%). "eol" never occurs as a word.
- turning it into a gallows fixes it. Gallows open things (paragraphs, first word of lines) and "pol" is a real word (15 times).
What I dont get is why p. p is the first-line gallows. In the last line of a paragraph only ~0.4% of words start with p, and a word-initial p in the middle of a last line happens only 7 times in the whole text (f1v.10, f20v.11, f26v.9, f78r.43, f80v.6, f85r1.6, f86v6.19). k would be the normal choice there. And there were easier fixes: adding just one stroke to the e gives d, and "dol" is a common word (86 times, 3 times on this same page). Or "chol" (321, 5 times on f1v). After a -y, a word starting with d is ~14x more likely than one starting with p. He didnt take any of those, he wrote a p on top. So it looks like he wanted "pol" specifically, not just any valid word. A slip while copying? But this is a huge slip... p is absolutely different from e.
ZL doesnt flag this line as corrected. Has anyone noticed it before, or is it marked in another transliteration? Do you know other corrections like this?