A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text

[Dunsel]

As for the construction of gallows words I have tried to show that the majority of them could be constructed from a list of prefixes of varying frequency together from a list of suffices and that the choice of suffix is independent of the prefix. At each sitting the writer might have had a preference for some of other prefix or suffix, giving a semblance of local modification.

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Then this may interest you.  If you look at every word in the Herbal section that contains a gallows anywhere, and you strip all of those gallows out, around 98% of the words that are left are either a copy or edit distance 1 to a previously existing word.

This is me going out on a limb but, could they be nothing more than a cosmetic flourish?  Since the Voynich has no capital letters and only 4 gallows, could they have been used to 'simulate' a capital letter just to make it look more legitimate?

I'll say this.  If this book is a hoax or copy/mutate, someone or some group went out of their way to make it look legitimate.