The fare has three stated word totals: two hundred last year, two hundred and forty now, and three hundred on the year's last day. The increases are forty and sixty words. The older two-coin fare belongs to a different unit. These three levels cannot supply the missing annual history across eleven years, or turn a changing board into a continuous, predictable progression.
Retention follows its own sequence. The widow's husband holds one hundred and ninety-one words, then one hundred and eighty-eight at the spring audit, although her receipts remain correct. In autumn, two hundred and forty are audited and stamped. He crosses with nine others. Her later entry into the water has another status: she is not returned, but her passage is not certified as the same crossing.
Teaching, lending and forbidden words occupy different arrangements. One word may be taught per dawn. Eleven people lend among themselves, returning words before the ramp and avoiding the same loan twice in a season. The schedule neither mentions nor forbids this practice. Names cost one hundred without a stated denomination. The banned list cannot be bought; the seller is struck from the register and then shot. Those distinctions should not be converted into one interchangeable currency.