Cribs in the Voynich MS

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Let's assume that the 28 labels around the central star on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are indeed related to the mansions of the moon. In that case I would be astonished, because some of the labels repeat themselves. The labels, along with their numbers of occurrences are as follows:

oar alys (1)
okcheys (1)
okeody (2)
okodchy (1)
okeod (3)
okeyd (1)
okeeydy (1)
otchy (1)
sarydy (1)
ykeody (1)
okolar (1)
saiir (1)
saral (1)
ykeydy (1)
oteol (1)
oteeys (1)
okeol (1)
otody (1)
okody (1)
ytody (1)
oeesy (1)
ytory (1)
ykeey (1)
ochoyk (1)
okeey sar (1)

It's really odd that okeod occurs 3 times and okeody twice if we consider that each mansion should have its unique name and star. Also, the labels themselves are also very similar to each other. This makes me think that when it came to picking the Voynichese labels the author was either drawing from a bucket of premade labels (and maybe sometimes mistakenly picked a label that was already taken?), or was just picking the next "closest" "free" label, whatever the criteria for those might've been. This is all assuming that a rather big Voynichese dictionary was involved, of course.