A family of grammars for Voynichese

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One huge benefit of Mauro's approach is that it's possible to objectively compare the goodness of fit of different grammars and the approach has very few assumptions. Basically, as long as the transcription is considered correct, I think it's possible to identify an optimal grammar for any section of the manuscript. It's not very clear how to interpret the results, but for many tentative cipher schemes it can be possible to quickly cross-check them against the grammar to see whether the scheme makes sense.

It's interesting that q and a are grouped together everywhere except Pharma and Herbal B. I wonder why ch and Sh are absent from Pharma and Cosmological.