[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[MarcoP]

Petr is a common name in many slavic countries. There was a Voynich researcher in Holland some years ago with that name.
Thai has many words ending in -tr , though neither of the two consonants is pronounced (at most a half-heard t).

Hi Rene,
Bakker is speaking of sounds. Hence, I don't think the Thai examples apply, while "Petr" and Anton's Anglo-Russian words probably do.
Also, since he his referring to "most languages", he appears to be aware that exceptions exist. He could have picked a better example, but I think what he is saying makes sense.

Another possibility is to look at the distribution of sounds within a word, assuming that each letter sign in the text represents a sound ... There are letters that only appear in certain positions, and it is not uncommon for languages to have sounds that do not appear in all positions in the word — in most languages, for example, no word can end in -tr.