A family of grammars for Voynichese

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Including ii as a bench ("X") would allow words like iiky or iiody, which do not seem to occur.  Thus I accept i, ii, and iii only as parts of the coda ("N") elements, which in the CMC model can occur only at the end of the word (apart from following "O", maybe).

Since ee as a bench can’t create words like eeky or eeody , 
I don’t see how treating ii like ee would result in words like iiky or iiody

That is a flaw of my model: it allows any bench at the start of a word, including ee.  So it does allow eeky and eeody; even though no words start with ee.  On that point, indeed, ii is like ee.

I think it is possible that ee is just a sloppy variant of Ch, with omitted ligature.  And the Scribe or Author generally avoided being sloppy at the start of a word.

But I felt it was necessary to include ee as a bench to account for words like deedy and keeeody which do occur more than 1000 times.  

On the other hand, there seem to be less than 70 tokens with ii in those places (not followed by [imnr]).  So I prefer to think that those cases of "internal ii" are errors by the Scribe or Author, and should have been ee.

All the best, --stolfi