A computational commonplace book
A little rogue.
A little royalty.
Give a tavern word a claim to the throne.
Forge a
Shakespearean name, then follow the evidence.
Early Modern English / contemporary invention
The composing room
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From Eastcheap to Agincourt
The paper trail
These are attestations of the ingredients. The name itself is newly composed.
Other impressions
Words have a history.
Coinages have a method.
Three plays form this small laboratory: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. Words are counted in spoken dialogue, with speaker labels and stage directions excluded.
The engine compares tavern and royal speaker groups using smoothed log odds. It proposes spelling blends, ranks retention and consonant clusters, and preserves the alternatives. Character Markov mode samples an order-three chain from the shared lexicon.
1413 is the coronation; 1415 is Agincourt. The journey is a literary metaphor. Dates of composition are distinct from events represented on stage.
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