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

[Dunsel]

No, the manuscript never explored every possible word combination. A realistic copy-mutate system would stay conservative, reusing active word families and nearby variants instead of wandering randomly through all legal forms.

And how was this achieved? For example, chol and chedy are two very common words and olchedy appears more than 70 times, what exactly happens when the scribes attempt to merge chol and chedy together into cholchedy? What stops them? Why cholchedy only occurs twice and qolchedy 11 times, even though chol is almost 3 times as popular as qol?

I believe Timm's work suggests merging words. Mine does not. My model is much more conservative and is based primarily on simple edit-distance-one mutations accumulating over time.
Furthermore, you're looking at Scribe 2 and the ed bigram. My own work so far has focused mainly on Scribe 1. I do not yet have a satisfactory answer for how the <ho>-heavy regime shifted into the later <ed>-heavy regime.

But to try to answer your question: the system is not exploring all legal combinations equally. It is heavily path-dependent. The scribes are mostly copying and lightly mutating whatever word families are currently active on the sheet. So even though chol and chedy are both common, that does not make cholchedy automatically probable just because it is technically legal.
These longer forms seem to develop their own local ecology. Once a form like qolchedy becomes established in a section or family cluster, nearby mutations tend to reinforce that branch rather than generating every other possible combination. The manuscript behaves much more like a conservative drifting network than a system sampling all possibilities.

Quite simply, in human terms: does the word “look right” within the current local family of forms being copied?