[Blog Post] Ruminations on the Voynich Manuscript

[RenegadeHealer]

Some researcher, I can't recall who, had a blog post comparing the statistical occurrence of both vords and the glyphs comprising them, in line-initial, line-final, mid-line, and label positions. The statistical patterns strongly supported the idea that these are four distinct populations of data, each with its own unique set of preferences and disinclinations that's not much like any of the other three. What surprised me most was the dissimilarity between line-initial and label positions, even when the first lines of paragraphs and Grove words were ignored. Can someone kindly link me that blog post, or at least remind me who wrote it?

The reason I bring this up, is that I wonder if, and how, label vords can be meaningfully be brought into this discussion. If I can collect the right tools and learn how to use them correctly, I'd love to do an experiment like this:

1. Select a page of the VMs that has a lot of unambiguous labels
   
2. For each label in turn, find, count, and mark all types occurring in the manuscript that are a Levenshtein edit distance of one from this label
   
3. Tally how many tokens of each type occur in line-initial, mid-line, line-final, and label positions
   
4. Use the total vord count for line-initial, mid-line, line-final, and label positions in that entire currier language / hand / thematic section / quire, to calculate the expected counts if the null hypothesis were true. The null hypothesis is that vords with a Levenshtein edit distance of one from any given label vord are equally as likely to occur in all of these positions, proportional to their fraction of the total text.
   
5. If the counts deviate from those predicted to a statistically significant degree, deem the null hypothesis falsified, and consider the idea that label vords are more morphologically similar to vords in certain positions than others.