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(06-04-2019, 08:26 PM)Common_Man wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Maybe this isn't going to be very useful, but just consider this possibility..
What if the author consistently left out the first letter (or consonant) while writing to make it difficult to read for the people who didn't know the system? The idea obviously comes from Derek Vogt's findings (which I still cant get enough of, even though I believe he lost his way somewhere in the middle and ended up in no man's land), and maybe keeping this in mind might help those trying to assign sound values, and such a thing might give rise to a lot of single glyph words, which the VMS has in plenty.

I myself have tried it while trying to transcribe the MS in my own way, but it never really helped.. Maybe others trying to do the same can benefit by keeping this in mind..

Leaving out the first letter was actually a characteristic of numerous dialects and one sees it when reading labels in herbal manuscripts. Very frequently the first letter just isn't there (not just the "h", which is often dropped, but sometimes hard consonants as well).

Some of the Provençal dialects dropped many letters throughout the words. This happens in some of the small towns in Scandinavia, as well (still to this day), so it was not just true of the mid-southern areas.


So, leaving out the first letter might be a deliberate choice (and might affect every token), but it might also be a property of how a particular person learned to speak.