If there is encryption, there is an intention to conceal and potentially even mislead. A good code-maker and user would realize that putting the names of plants where we would expect to find them (i.e. at the start) would risk them becoming cribs.
That said, this sort of mistake was made by many code-users over the centuries, so we can't assume the Voynich scribes would have been too sophisticated for such an error. But hiding potential cribs would be an explanation for the plant names being where we wouldn't traditionally expect to see them.
That said, this sort of mistake was made by many code-users over the centuries, so we can't assume the Voynich scribes would have been too sophisticated for such an error. But hiding potential cribs would be an explanation for the plant names being where we wouldn't traditionally expect to see them.
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