01-04-2016, 11:55 AM
Anton,
Let's consider a pharmaceutical recipe book. A limited set of words would be repeated very frequently, such as "for", "take", "and", "then", "until", "healthy", and some words relative to quantities like numbers and common measurements (eg: one, two, or three drachms) might be frequent too, but the ingredients as well as the ailments, which would represent a large number of words in the text, would tend be much more unique.
It might yield some really interesting results to do a detailed comparison of vord frequency in specific sections of the Voynich such as the "pharma" and "recipe" sections with some actual medieval pharmaceutical recipe texts and see what happens.
Regarding your latest observation: among these 55 most frequent vords that appear more than 100 times, are there some that stand out because they are particularly frequent? Are there vords that show up say, 1000 times in the Voynich?
Let's consider a pharmaceutical recipe book. A limited set of words would be repeated very frequently, such as "for", "take", "and", "then", "until", "healthy", and some words relative to quantities like numbers and common measurements (eg: one, two, or three drachms) might be frequent too, but the ingredients as well as the ailments, which would represent a large number of words in the text, would tend be much more unique.
It might yield some really interesting results to do a detailed comparison of vord frequency in specific sections of the Voynich such as the "pharma" and "recipe" sections with some actual medieval pharmaceutical recipe texts and see what happens.
Regarding your latest observation: among these 55 most frequent vords that appear more than 100 times, are there some that stand out because they are particularly frequent? Are there vords that show up say, 1000 times in the Voynich?