5

E is the one vowel worth 5 by itself. Bruno Glenn arrives by a longer road: U and O in Bruno add to 9, E in Glenn is 5, and 9 plus 5 makes 14, then 5.

Wilson in 1922 read the vowels as secret hopes, and Cheasley in 1916 lists dislike of control and eager interest in living for 5. Put together, they give the reading that modern books use: a private wish for freedom and change. The pairing is a modern one, as neither writer applies it in those words.

Balliett in 1905 says the mind under 5 begins to reach out for unseen things, and Walton in 1914 finds it nervous and double-sided. Sepharial's 1911 list goes elsewhere entirely with pleasure and joy. How much of that belongs to the vowels is open, because the old writers seldom say.