Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

We can see examples of words with distinctive spellings in:

oar alys
ochoyk
saiir
oeesy

I suspect these kinds of words are the ones that we should be most interested in.

It is striking the number of words that start with an 'o' and the number of words for which the second letter is a 'k' or a 't'. Clearly a lot of words end with a '9' and many end with an '8' or '89'. It seems very common for the third letter to be a 'c' or possibly an 'o'.