...And sin has the highest multiple. You can't win that way. Also you can't put sin and shin together in these statistics by simple addition, so your added calculation is not valid - although in practice I accept that sin and shin taken together would fall in the middle of the range, if you accept sin-shin pairs as real homonyms.
Notice that the shin has the second lowest multiple. The sin and shin
together have a multiple still on the low side of the average of 1.784
(taken from the total row).
Even though I disagree with the lexicographic method, the results seemI would be interested in your statistics on the number of homonym for each letter defined "by action". I assume that you have these numbers as without them you could not observe a frequency.
to imply even stronger than defining by action that the sin and shin
together were originally one letter. (Defining according to action
gives an observed frequency closer to the predicted numbers than to
the "observed" frequency from your received list.)
To repeat my original observation, I noticed that sin and shinWell, let us see the statistics on which you based your original observation.
together are observed to have a lower frequency of homonyms than
expected, especially lower than expected if they were originally two
phonemes. That, along with other clues, caused me to raise the
question, were they originally one phoneme with one letter to
represent that one phoneme?
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