Diacritical variants of "i" and "e"
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Thank you for the link. Now I feel a bit ashamed, it seems I was reinventing the wheel  Wink
This link actually should be at the top of this website in big, red letters.

Quote:The "plumes" (or whatever the correct paleographic term is for this) look a lot more like macrons (connected to the letter, which was common in some cursive gothic manuscripts of the 14th and 15th century) than any diacritical mark that I've ever seen.

My growing feeling is that Voynich script is "deceitful", possibly on purpose. It makes you see letters different then they are.

Take "y" letter. It often appears at the word end andisactually similar to "9" digit and to a sign that was used to mean "us" and also appeared at the end:

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But Voynich "y" is different. It's not "9" symbol but "c" letter (read in EVA as "e") with a tail:
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Someone who is dead for over 500 years is still playing tricks with us and giving us red herrings. If a Voynich letter resembles you something then it's most probably something else.
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Diacritical variants of "i" and "e" - by Rafal - 19-03-2025, 02:40 PM
RE: Diacritical variants of "i" and "e" - by Rafal - 19-03-2025, 08:43 PM

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