F66r question

[Anton]

Maybe the last part of "mus" is not a letter at all. Maybe it's a bit of round spongy stuff, a drawing element, that happens to be near "mu".

That's an interesting turn, JKP.

Lexer refers to "müeje" for "mû", and "müeje" is "Beschwerde, Mühe, Last, Not, Bekümmernis, Verdruss". Indeed, the modern Mühe must have descended from "müeje".

This would be more or less in context with the sickening woman. "Müeje" is feminine which is incompatible with "der", so that would need to be "den"? (here my knowledge of German grammar fails me)

Now, this somehow is gathered in one explanation. The initial plain text was a decryption of the Voynichese string. Let's say it was an idle decryption by the same scribe. (Or it might have been an idle encryption instead).

Then this secretive and cunning guy realises that the presence of both plain text and cipher text side by side may compromise his cipher. Thus he introduces fake corrections into the plain text (adding "s" to "mu", changing "mel" to "del").