Morten St George Theory

[-JKP-]

Do you realize how truly weird this statement is? ALL letters are various other strokes turned or elongated or shortened. That's how letters evolve. That's how they are designed. The letter b is the letter d mirrored. An ell is i elongated without the dot. A medieval f is a medieval s with a crossbar. Noticing a similarity in shape means nothing. You have to DEMONSTRATE that there is a relationship between them that goes beyond the similarity in shape and you haven't done that. You've only pointed out the obvious.

JP, I was only trying to suggest that the symbol ½ might be a gate and not the Latin letter y inserted into Voynichese script. But you are certainly welcome to believe it's a y. It's theoretically possible for it to be a y.

You must be scan-reading (or mixing up my posts with other people's posts) because I never said that was a "y". It's somewhat shaped like a "y" but that doesn't mean it's a "y" or even that it's a letter (it could be a symbol or a number).

I avoid referring to the Voynich glyphs as letters—I call them glyphs. I don't call them words either; I call them "tokens".

I do refer to the marginalia as letters because some of the obviously are, but we DO NOT KNOW what the Voynich glyphs represent, so to call it a "y" would be presumptive.