A family of grammars for Voynichese

[Jorge_Stolfi]

But now I have become convinced that many, if not all, of the hundreds of ir endings are in fact scribal errors for iin.  These errors could have been caused by the Author's sloppy "cursive" handwriting on the draft, where an in could easily be confused with an r.

A parallel for that kind of error can be seen in this clip that I posted a while ago:
   
The Rubricator monk who owned the red inkwell made several errors that were corrected by a subsequent Proofreader monk in brown ink.  From the nature of the errors, it is evident that the Rubricator did not know Latin, not even enough to tell that "raaonem" was not a valid word.  Thus he misread the "ti" of the original as single "a" and copied it as such (J3).  (And he must have been copying from another "clean-copy" manuscript, not from a draft!)  

Back to VMS, for the Author his sloppy "in"s at the end of words were not a problem, because he knew the language and knew that only an in would be valid at that point.  But the Scribe could not tell his in from his r and thus often wrote the latter.  I suppose that the Author was not happy when he saw that, but again it was not a problem for him because he knew that those r were in fact in.  Just like anyone who knew Latin could tell when an "u" in a Latin manuscript was in fact a "v".  That is my current view of what happened there.

All the best, --stolfi