Cribs in the Voynich MS

[oshfdk]

There is really a huge lot of vertical patterns in VM. I could invent some formal definition of them and count them in the entire manuscript. It would be a long, tedious and boring job. Then I could do the same for some manuscript in Latin. Then I could do some formal statistical test and compare the results.

I don't think the number of vertical patterns in VM is higher than expected given the properties of the text (small alphabet + CLS or grammar rules). So, while the number of vertical patterns seems high, I'm not sure this requires a separate explanation.