Minim Confusion and Pig's Organ Soup

I saw this sign at the temporary location of the Hong Lim hawkers' centre last time I was in Singapore. It took me a minute to figure out what had gone wrong. I rather think it had to do with minim confusion.

The minim is the short, vertical stroke that is used for forming the letters i, u, m and n. The word minim is itself formed out of 10 minims! I don't know much about palaeography, so I can't go on at length about this, but a run of juxtaposed minims can be hard to distinguish in manuscripts—is that u or n? An m or in?

The practice of dotting i's solved part of the problem. Replacing minim-formed vowels with others did the trick too. It's thought that our spellings of love, son and woman—all with unhistorical o's—stemmed from a desire to reduce minim confusion in words that were, at various stages of Old and Middle English, spelled luue, sunu and wimman.

So I imagine that the signmaker for this hawker stall had been handed a note specifying that the words Pig's Innard should appear, but as a result of some understandable minim confusion (innard is not among the most frequently encountered of English words), he wrote Lunard instead.

It's somehow rather nice to think that my Hong Lim hawker's signmaker was stymied by the same difficulty that sometimes beset medieval scribes.

Incidentally, to the left of pig's lunard appeared a notice for pig's trottles. Behind that, I think, is another story ...