If only substitution cipher theorists who are convinced that it is some specific language would take a page of a real 15th century manuscript and encipher it to Voynichese... They never do, because it would be obvious that they failed to generate good-looking Voynichese with all its well-known (and some less well-known) properties.
Hunting for nearly-matching words in old dictionaries lets them ignore a large percentage of words, including common words that have nearly zero chance of never appearing in a large text.
Hunting for nearly-matching words in old dictionaries lets them ignore a large percentage of words, including common words that have nearly zero chance of never appearing in a large text.
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