A key to understand the VMS

[Psillycyber]

The thing that I keep coming back to is the fact that, if Voynich was like English, the word list would look like:

brick
blick
bwick
bruck
brock
brack
bryck
brin
brit
brip
brim
brin
bren
bran
brap
drick
orick
arick
erick
urick
yrick
ifick
ofick
efick
enick
anick
ofin
arin
brol
brug
bring
bris
brib
grick
gris
obruck
ebrack
abreck
ubrin
ubrit

And so on...

But what you would not find is a completely unrelated word like "apple"

Although if you did find "apple," you'd also find:

appel
appil
appul
grapple
gramle
adel
amel
afel
avil
tavil
tamil
rapil
gepple
lupple
pepplu

And so on...

Note that, occasionally, you would get some false positives—some things that looked like meaningful words.  After all, in just making autocopying substitutions above, I did come up with some real English words ("bran," "brim," "bring," "grapple").  So it's not like it's totally unprecedented for languages to have some words of theirs that are similar to each other.  What you don't see, though is where ALL of the words are similar to each other.