A possible way to break down Voynich text

[ReneZ]

I also think that this is a very promising approach, in general.
I see it as one of the best ways to explain the low entropy of the text.

Inevitably, this has been considered and tried by several people in the past.
Jim Reeds tried to create such a list using a piece of software to set it up, but as far as I know this did not produce a result that he was satisfied with.

Something rather similar was done by Robert Firth:

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though his suggestion of what it means is quite different.

That last point I think is important in order to advance, namely to clearly separate the analytical part (how to separate the text into basic units) and the speculative part: what it means (cipher or language?, which language?).

The most important questions to answer at the start are, in my opinion:
- How much of the text (e.g. in percent) does this really explain? It is certainly not 100%, and it is also correct that one may assume that the text has some errors. If it can't (yet) be checked by a piece of software, it should at least be checked against some relevant pages, one herbal-A, one herbal-B, one bio or one recipes page.
- How can we know that this is the only method? Really, it is not likely to be, but how to find the 'most likely' method.

A general comment as well: I don't think that it is necessary at this stage to assume that Ch and ee (and similar examples) mean the same thing.

This is not meant to be overly critical. I do believe, as I said at the start, that this is quite promising.