John Wycliffe Latin ms letters and Voynich characters

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the endings of words are abbreviated but I use "flexible" rules. This means that and ending 9, x or y does not have a particular fixed meaning
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Even in Latin, they don't have fixed meanings.

The 9 characters typically stand for con or com at the beginnings of words, but they can also represent homonyms. The same is true at the ends of words. They usually mean us or um, but they can also be is or im or em, just depending on context. At the end of words, they can stand for almost anything, as long as they are used consistently within the context of the document.

For example, the rotated-m symbol that looks like a z was used by most scribes to mean "em" but some scribes also used it for "rem" and "rum" and other endings.

In other words, the rotated-m was used collectively for three different endings that were USUALLY written with three different abbreviation symbols, but the text was still readable.

So.. the IDEA of a general-purpose ending (one that is even more flexible than usual) wasn't far from the way scribes thought about things.