Anagrams, was Re: VMs: Original encoding scheme

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

The idea of looking at anagrams in Voynichese
and comparing woth other languages is, to my
knowledge, new. From the rigid word structure 
that has been discussed in the past, I would expect
that Voynichese allows relatively fewer anagrams.
This has not yet been confirmed. In fact there
are two very different results. Of the different
possible causes:

- transcription alphabet: this could play a role
  but it does not seem to be the case. Of the 
  first example:
  > 7 chekody chokedy dcheoky dokechy ekchody
  > kcheody ykechod
  This remains unaffected when changing to Currier
  or FSG. (See also below).
 
- The use of a complete text (with repeated words)
  vs. a vocabulary (all words unique). This will 
  have a significant impact, and both checks could
  be made in parallel. Use of the volcabulary is
  a cleaner statistic, but is of course more 
  sensitive to spelling or transcription errors
  since a word accidentally spelled incorrectly will
  weigh as much as the most frequent word in the
  language.

That brings another possibility: transcription
errors or differences. Unclear spaces in the MS
are probably the biggest problem.

The 7-fold anagrammed word looks very interesting.
They seem variations of the common word "chedy" or
"cheody" with an additional gallows inserted almost
arbitrarily. I wonder if there is a pattern to
that. In fact, I am very curious whether these
words are all rare, and whether they occur near
each other in a single section or not.
The base word "chedy" is the most common
language-B word and is found in the Bio and
Stars/Recipes sections. The word "cheody" is more
a transition word (between A and B).

Cheers, Rene



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