Emma May Smith > 20-03-2024, 12:18 AM
MarcoP > 20-03-2024, 07:23 AM
Patrick Feaster Wrote:Words beginning with [Sh] turn out to be distinctly more prevalent in the first lines of paragraphs than words beginning with [ch], even though they’re consistently less prevalent in lower lines
Emma May Smith > 20-03-2024, 11:55 AM
tavie > 20-03-2024, 01:24 PM
MarcoP > 22-03-2024, 08:51 AM
Emma May Smith > 25-03-2024, 06:57 PM
(20-03-2024, 01:24 PM)tavie Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't know if it was covered before Patrick but my assumption was that it probably would have been at some point.
I have work at the moment that I'm hoping to present for Voynich Day involving glyph behaviour at various positions in the line and paragraph with relation to both their position in the word and the scribe. sh in the top row is one of them, although it's not always demonstrably more frequent for every section e.g. the effect for initial sh is much smaller in the balneological section and seems indistinguishable from random chance. Not fully written up yet, and I'm trying to work through a few complications, but if you're also looking into this, happy to share informal observations.
Emma May Smith > 25-03-2024, 07:00 PM
(22-03-2024, 08:51 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I would say that the plot above confirms that chdy is more frequent in the first line of paragraphs (though of course numbers are about one order of magnitude smaller than those for 'sh'). About 10% of the occurrences are of the pchdy type, and these of course concentrate in the first line. But also excluding 'pchdy', a preference for the first line is still there:
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MarcoP > 25-03-2024, 07:48 PM
pfeaster > Yesterday, 10:54 PM