[Article] Notes on Four Sources Cited by Layfield and Davis (2026)

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Notes on Four Sources Cited in "The Application of Latent Semantic Analysis to the Voynich Manuscript'' by Layfield and Davis (2026)

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Layfield and Davis apply Latent Semantic Analysis to the Voynich Manuscript and engage with a substantial prior literature on the manuscript's two Currier languages, A and B. This note documents four places where the paper's characterization of cited sources does not match what those sources say. In one case, the cited classifications differ from the citing paper's representation of them, and the cited author's disclaimers about the labels are not carried into the citing paper. In another, the cited paper's terminology is attributed from a different paper, and the cited paper's own contribution on the same question is not represented. In a third, the cited paper does not address the topic of the citation. In the fourth, the cited paper draws the opposite conclusion from the one it is cited to support. Each can be verified directly by readers consulting the cited works.