The gallows intrusion, the baseline jumps and multipass

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Another baseline jump from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and if you look at the original folio, it also has the look of maybe being added later (different ink density):

Or.. A poor quill combined with unruled paper. Lots of text in the voynich. Scribes get sleepy. It's bound to happen, and probably a lot more than once.

There are many many incidents of the "o" being offset from the gallows (both in the horizontal and vertical directions) even when the gallows lines up with the other letters

Hypothetically, if -as many have speculated- the o represents an article, it could be somewhat inconsistently joined to words. It might for example assimilate with some sounds and then be written together. In Arabic the definitive article behaves like that, although it's always written together with the word. 

Or, if it also represents a word by itself it could simply be that together it's an article, by itself it's... Something else.

However, if it chiefly happens with one or all of the gallows.. I'd have to wonder if there's some other underlying mechanism.

I'd still find a little sloppiness and coincidence more likely though.

Addendum: Suppose it's worth noting that y and o are very common in front of gallows in general. Might simply be that if your gallows be somewhat out of whack to the previous letter, that letter will likely be a o or y.