Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

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Hello Ahmet!
The word you are looking at, very important in my opinion, contains two glyphs 8. You read the first one as the number 8 and the second one
as a letter. Why this difference?

I'm not Ahmet, but if I had to guess -- looking at the two glyphs, the 1st is drawn like an actual '8''; the bottom of the second one has a curved stroke meeting a diagonal stroke rather than a closed bottom loop. A quick scan of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. doesn't seem to show him making that distinction, but it's potentially there. In any case, that document makes clear that '8' can be either the number '8' or a letter in his theory. Polyvalence does happen in writing systems, so whatever my overall view of the theory is I wouldn't disqualify it solely on that basis.