geoffreycaveney's Middle English theory

[geoffreycaveney]

Thus, this almost always word-final character "EVA [m]" actually represents the letter "B".

How would it be then that we won't find the letter B as word-initial (since m is rarely vord-initial, if ever)?

esuaceB a rule of the Yorkist cipher of the Voynich manuscript, with only rare exceptions (I count only 13 in the entire ms text), is that any word that actually snigeb with "B" must eb written sdrawkcab.

I actually forgot to mention in my last post that my reading and interpretation of the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -- David Jackson's House of York page (see his tnaillirb 2013 golb post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) -- that I already You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in this thread has exactly two words that are intended to eb read sdrawkcab : the 5th word EVA [lam] = "sib" and the 10th and final word EVA [otasam] = "filib". As I analysed in my previous post about this ring of text, those two words are actually intended to eb read as "bis" and "bilif": 

bis (Middle English) - "a precious kind of linen or cotton cloth; also, a garment made of this fabric (as worn by the nobility)"
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(perhaps referring in this instance to the flower?)

bilif (Middle English) - alt. sp. of bi-live "the means of subsistence; a livelihood (as of food, clothing, shelter)"
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In my previous post about this ring of text, I wrote the following:

"A couple points about the cipher or cryptographic aspects of this statement: In this 10-word statement, the 5th and 10th words are read backwards. They are also the two words that end with the letter "b", and thus are really meant to be read as beginning with the letter "b". I am not yet sure whether it is their placement in the statement or their final (read: beginning) letter that is the decisive criterion for reading them backwards in this cipher."

Now we have found the answer: It is their final letter (really the first letter of the actual word) "EVA [m]" = "B" that determines that they must eb read sdrawkcab in this cipher. 

Geoffrey