The truncation effect

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Thoughts on what I call the "truncation effect": the phenomenon that we can remove initial and final glyphs from many (most?) Voynich "words" and still leave "words".

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_p ... ion-effect

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Voynich manuscript, page f1r, lines 1-6: effect of truncation on incidence of hapax legomena. Author's analysis.

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Further thoughts on the "truncation effect", in a text in which letters are sorted alphabetically within words:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_p ... ect-part-2