Deconstruction of Voynich Manuscript words

[Emma May Smith]

E and F in the Latin alphabet are similar letters - do you think of them as the same thing or interchangeable for some reason?

How about C and G and O?

They are similar in shape, but they are different letters. The glyphs are the same way. Each one has its own sound and identity.

Nobody gets to trade/substitute one for another for some unknown reason.

Thank you.

Don of Tallahassee

---

Hi Don, I think that it would be perfectly acceptable, in the Roman script used for English, to consider words containing say, a voiceless consonant such as p/t/k to have some fundamental relationship with those containing similar voiced consonants such as b/d/g. They are not the same sounds, but they behave in very similar ways. Words like "puck" and "bug" are related in their structures, as are "blade" and "plate". To make separate rules to describe how each of these six sounds works would be redundant when they are so alike.
The same goes for Voynich words, where [t] and [k] are similar, or where words beginning [qo] don't seem vastly different from [o]. Generalizing may well miss some detail, but it may also reveal a fundamental link.