Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[Koen G]

Thanks JKP, that does give a bit of insight. Now, the redundancy of month-month is not necessarily wrong, such things happen in natural languages all the time. For example in Dutch it is common to say "dennenboom" or "beukenboom" for trees, even though the first parts are themselves trees and the "boom" (tree) part is pleonastic.

I wonder if the "u to ayi" thing might be one of those instances where they read a digit out fully, kind of like you'd spell "w8" instead of "wait". Just guessing..