glyph [d] as a substitute for [p] and [f]

[RenegadeHealer]

@geoffreycaveney, I'm intrigued. This is truly an innovative solution to the very real problem of the distribution of [f] and [p], which unless adequately explained, is pretty damning to most linguistic hypotheses of the VM.

However, I'm not satisfied with your solution's answer to the question of what [cfh] and [cph] should become when they're not on the first line of a paragraph or the first character of a line. If the distinction between [p] and [cph] is important in Voynichese, and there are minimal pairs that hinge on this distinction, it does not logically follow that the scribe would reduce both of these to [d]. For what it's worth, I'll abide [f] and [p] both mapping to [d], since it's not at all clear that [f] and [p] are not variations of the same glyph. But both of them and their benched varieties all mapping to [d] when not in the first line stretches credibility a bit.

Now, what I would be open to is [cfh] and [cph] regularly mapping to [*d] or [d*] or [*d*], where [*] is a wildcard representing another repurposed Voynichese glyph, whose identity should be discernible via statistical analysis, if your theory holds up.