03-10-2026, 06:58 PM
It's speculative, but given the extreme ordering of the letters, I have strong intuition that spaces are essentially part and parcel of the "suffixes", and I recall some statistical analysis that uncertain spaces in the manuscript were much more common at predicted word breaks than elsewhere. Of course, like a great many plausible Voynich ideas with some backing, it just kicks the can down the road---why those "suffixes"? At any rate, taking that as a given, that would mean a space is never really "skipped" because it should be entirely recoverable from the stream of glyphs, and that is arguably what we're seeing here. Voynichese.com gives 271 instances of stand-alone <dy>, so it is reasonable that it might be moved closer to <r> if <r> is an unambiguous break without it