Liaisons in the Voynich text

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A plausible explanation could be that q is so strongly word-initial that a space is not really needed to know that it is there, so the scribe would unconsciously make it smaller.

Thank you!


Could be, I like it. There is a way to tell the two apart, I think: if it's the q, the space in front of a q should be small whatever the word before ends in. If it's the clash, then the odd one is the bare o after a y, and it should come with a wider space than a bare o after anything else. In your example the L is in front of the bare o, which looks more like the second... but one line is one line. I'll look at a few pages and come back.