The Voynich Ninja

I would like to draw attention to the enigmatic vord ary.

It is the vord with which the Voynich Manuscript ends (not counting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. marginalia).

It is also the vord with which ends the "four charts" section of Q10.

It is a vord with particular affinity to the line endings. 23 of its 26 occurrences are line-ending. Although occurrences as labels are counted as line-ending as well, but whenever it is within a paragraph, it is line-ending. In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. only it is stopped by the stem of the plant, - which is a valuable hint that that may be the effective line-ending as well. The only places where it is not line-ending seem to be a couple of astro charts where it's part of circular inscriptions.

I wonder whether there are other vords exhibiting such strange behaviour, apart from vords ending in m, and what we can make of this.

All words ending [ry] and [ly] have some affinity for the line-end position.

Yes, I have checked some things *ary, such as dary or sary, and I saw that. So I was about to raise the objection that that affinity is not as "perfect" as with ary. For example, dary is 16 times line-ending out of 24, and even apart from circular charts there are cases when it's not line-ending, e.g. f77v.

However it suddenly occured to me that when a vord that's predominantly line-ending is seen somewhere in the middle of the line, that may mean that this is the border of a block of text in the line. This deservers a closer look with the multipass analysis. This is a totally new path of investigation.