An explanation of the Voynich Manuscript text

[Emma May Smith]

I think it is well-accepted that the presence of words beginning with a gallows or ending with [m] is caused by line position, rather than their line position being caused by their presence.

Has anyone explained this, or provided any evidence?    Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation.

This would be extremely easy to fake, whether or not the text has meaning.   Just ensure you start a new paragraph when you're about to write a gallows character.

Yes.

1) Words which begin with gallows at the beginning of paragraphs (Grove words) are often unusual in their structure. Removing the gallows makes them more regular. This suggests that the gallows is often added (although I agree that this is not the only cause).

2) If words ending [m] caused the end of a line, we would expect many short lines as words ending [m] occur elsewhere in the text, or even just shorter than average. But such lines typically run the full length of the page with no space for further words. This suggests that it is caused by being the last word in a line.