qo and the 15.5% factor

[MichelleL11]

Just realized that there is not a single instance of 4o in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. The first one appears in f1v. Has anyone else noticed this before? If it stants for "th" and the language is medieval english what are the odds it will be missing from an entire page ?

If the VM plaintext had the same frequency as the Wycliffe Bible, about 16.8% of all word starts are “th,” based on Voynichgibberish’s data.
 
If words in the VM are actual words in the plaintext, for f1r, which has 210 words (according to the Takahashi translation), on average (if the words, with the same frequency starts as the Wycliffe Bible were randomly placed) you would expect about 35 words in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to start with “th” (e.g. start with qo).  
 
I think the problem with figuring the "odds" of this happening relies on the "qo" words being evenly distributed.   

A quick look on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (qo search, then hit the two lines button to show the histograms) reveals that does not seem to be the case.  About 20% are in Currier A and about 80% are in Currier B.  There is a moderate, constant use in the “herbal” texts, little to no use in the “astrology” and “zodiac-like pages” and then extremely high use in the remaining sections of the manuscript.
 
This could be argued to be underlying language related, related to whatever differentiates Currier A from Currier B if that is different than an underlying language, or perhaps, but less convincingly in my mind (assuming a constant language), subject matter related.  I find this less convincing because I don’t know of any reason why the “th” sound would not start words related to certain subjects, unless perhaps the subject was dominated by loan words that do not use that sound at the beginning of words.  Which could be the case . . . . 
 
But it should be noted that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is not unique in its complete lack of qo words.  There are a total of six folios that have no qo words on them (f1r (210 words), You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (plant with only 3 words), You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (101 words), f72v1 (102 words), f72v3 (121 words) (f72v for link), and f72r3 (169 words) (f72r for link).
 
Admittedly, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does have the most text of all of these, although its topic is usually surmised to be some sort of intro page – so the fact that some “introduced” topics somehow avoid the use of qo in such a summary, but use it to such extent in the actual pages, does seem a bit suspicious.

I realize this discussion can provide no conclusion.  But, like a lot of the VM questions -- the answer seems to be maybe.