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[pjburkshire]

"In the "herbal" section as a whole, the incidence of hapax legomena is 71.4 percent of the vocabulary. Among the "leaf words", the incidence of hapax legomena is just 34.7 percent. In some way, the "leaf words" are more likely to be meaningful than the "herbal" section as a whole."

Could this be an artifact of the truncation and the creation of words with fewer characters?

If a scribe needs to write the word "today" but only has room for "to" and then "day".  This gives a count of two meaningful words but the scribe only intended one.