(19-01-2021, 02:46 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The main reason is that every third "word" in the Voynich MS ends with the character y , and the words ending -us in a Latin text aren't anywhere near as frequent, by an enormous margin.
I'm not qualified to say if Rene is correct or not. But I appreciate that the probability to be right is very high. Why? The affirmation "Voynich character y is equivalent to termination -us in Latin" (the contrary of Rene's assertion) hide several hypotheses not proved yet:
1. The MS is written in Latin
2. The Voynich groups of symbols are words
3. The Voynich symbols are letters and/or abbreviation signs.
Each of those hypotheses have a probability below 100% (yet) that will considerably reduce the probability for y to be -us. If just one of the hypotheses are wrong (probability equal to zero), the discussion remains without object.
This is not intended to be a confirmation of Rene's affirmation based on frequency analysis, but it is another approach heading in the same direction.