Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Ah yes, sorry, it's been a while . That's still a lot of combinations!

I see no requirement to make use of all the available possibilities.

But yes, the script does look somewhat rigid at places, such as within the following line:

ySheedy okeedy oteedy qokeedy okeedy okeedy chedal okair qoteedar aty

The first six words all end in eedy, and half of those are entirely the same. But if you take six at a time (as it looks like we should do for our second verse), they are all different and therefore convert into different letters:

ySheed  y_okee  dy_ote  edy_qo  keedy_   okeedy  _okeed y_ched …

The letters change just before a repeat would have occurred.

It looks like Voynichese is able to vary, at will, the number of glyphs used to represent each Latin letter in any particular passage. In our Rosetta Stone of five lines, four of them are at a ratio of 3 to 1 and one is at a ratio of 6 to 1.

Elsewhere, the ratio could be different but, as in our Rosette Stone, the number of Voynich words might reflect the character ratio.

Thus, if a red star passage has 49 words, in could mean that the underlying Latin has six words and the character ratio is 8 to 1, or perhaps that the underlying Latin has seven words and the character ratio is 7 to 1.

Note that the ranges are limited on the Latin end: we can infer from the literal French translation that the underlying Latin should have approximately six words per verse, maybe sometimes five or seven words.