Floating gallows

[Emma May Smith]

Patrick, while that's an interesting observation, what would we do with words like [cheokey] or [chotey]? Removing the gallows would result in [cheoey] and [choey], neither of which exist. I think that the gaps would be difficult to explain as it wouldn't apply to a single word, but to a whole series:

[kcheoey] 1 and [tchoey] 0
[ckheoey] 0 and [cthoey] 0
[chkeoey] 0 and [chtoey] 0
[chekoey] 0 and [chotey] 9
[cheokey] 3 and [choety] 1
[cheoeky] 0 and [choeyt] 0
[cheoeyk] 0

We would be faced with a situation where a gallows could insert itself into a word in one of seven or six slots, but chooses the same slot 75% to 90% of the time.