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RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 11-05-2021
Since I first wrote the draft paper attached to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. above in this thread, I have extended the set of cipher rules for determining when to read/write words backwards instead of forwards. Here is this set of backwards words cipher rules as I have currently identified them:
Words may be written forwards or backwards. But this decision is not made at random or arbitrarily; rather, the forwards or backwards order of words is in line with the “Yorkist” theme of the cipher wherever possible, as the following rules will explain:
A word is written backwards if doing so will achieve any of the following “Yorkist” appearances of the word as written on the page:
- If it will make the “Y” character appear first in the word, as in “YORK”
- If it will make the “K” character appear last in the word, as in “YORK”
- If it will make the first letter “b” of the detested “BolingBroke” appear last in the word
- If it will make the first letter “m” of the Yorkist claimant to the throne “MortiMer” appear first in the word
- If it will make the “r” character appear last in the word, as in “MoRtiMeR”
- If it will make the “p” character appear first in the word, as in “Percy”
- If it will make the “th” character appear first in the word, since the “th” character is similar in shape to the “Y” character
- If it will make the “n” character appear first in the word, since the “n” character is similar in shape to the “m” character
- If it will make the “t” character appear first in the word, since the “t” character is similar in shape to the “p” character
- If it will make the “f, v” or “d” character combinations appear first in the word, since they contain the “p” and “t” characters respectively
Geoffrey
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - tavie - 12-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 12-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - tavie - 12-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 12-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 13-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 15-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - ReneZ - 15-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - geoffreycaveney - 15-05-2021
RE: geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory - ReneZ - 15-05-2021