Analysis of patterns at the very start and end of lines, per line type

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Wrong spaces would not affect the word-initial probabilities at the start of body lines, but would affect the word-initial probabilities for other words of the line.  Aren't the latter being used as reference, to declare the former anomalous?

Yes, you are right. For your information, I assumed each ',' as a space. I understand that this could affect, as the separation of all ',' by spaces increases the corpus by 7,7%.

Body lines (within paragraphs)
These are ordinary running lines within the paragraph (not the first line, nor the last line).

• Starts: A mixed, stable recipe: d, s, y, q, o dominate, with c notably lower than in the general word stock.
  

I don’t like throwing out baseless theories or overcomplicating things, but I can’t help noticing that the characters most common at the beginnings of lines (except the first lines of paragraphs) are also the ones that most resemble Arabic numerals in the Voynich. 

d=> 8
s => 2
y => 9
q => 4
o => 0

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Just a random thought I wanted to leave here.