List of "weird" vords

[Mark Knowles]

This doesn't really prove anything, but I expect that in most cases if the Voynich MS was created as a combination of two distributions - meaningful and meaningless - this would have been quite within reach of modern computational analysis for many years now, and someone somewhere would create a reasonable split of Voynichese into two statistically dissimilar distributions according to some simple rule (as you said yourself, there should be a rule governing which parts to read and which to skip).

I am not suggesting that the filler text is random gibberish. It makes sense that there is structure to it, if you like "structured" gibberish. Likewise, the real text will not be random; how it will be structured will depend on the sophistication of the cipher used if not simple substitution(assuming the underlying language is latin for example). So, I am not sure that it is helpful to think of them as two dissimilar distributions.

At the moment you could partition all words into two categories: those for which the 2nd glyph is one of the 4 simple gallows characters and those words for which that is not the case. (It could include all words that begin with an 'o' or end with a 'g') However, I suspect a bit more sophisticated partition.