(12-03-2024, 06:27 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It seems only logical to me, if we are dealing with an herbal (or pseudo-herbal), the text would ostensibly consider the medical properties of plants. For the various plants there are different parts that are used, for example, the roots. When the roots are relevant, they are mentioned; and when not, they are ignored.
Bear in mind the two other observations mentioned in my post: Firstly, a word common in one section can always be found in all other sections as well. Secondly, there are considerably more word types containing EVA-edy in sections using Currier B than in sections using Currier A.
For instance the pharmaceutical section, written in Currier A, includes illustrations of plant parts, especially roots, but is rarely using the word 'chedy' (there is only a single instance on f89r1). Conversely, the balneological and stars sections, which lack plant illustrations but are written in Currier B, not only more frequently feature 'chedy' but also contain a greater variety of 'edy' word types, such as 'shedy', 'sheedy', 'cheedy', 'okeedy', and so forth. To me, this indicates that glyph combinations are preferred in a certain location and not word types: "all pages containing at least some lines of text do have in common that pairs of frequently used words with high mutual similarity appear" [Timm & Schinner, p. 3].
Additionally, in natural languages there will be frequent words distributed equally over the entire text, the so-called function words (like conjunctions, articles etc.). They do not appear contextual, but rather serve to implement grammatical structures, and they normally do not have co-occurring similar words of comparable frequency [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. p. 6]. Therefore for a text using a natural language it would be expected that the most frequent words are functions words and therefore appear equally distributed. Surprisingly, equally distributed words do not exist in the Voynich text. In other words, grammatical structures are absent in the Voynich text.