Re: Voynich letters

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There are also a (very) few
> instances where the left and right parts of the gallows
> are separated by several letters, e.g. q....p (in Frogguy)
> which are not representable in EVA as far as I know.
> Now that is a puzzle. It strengthens the hypothesis that
> some gallows (t and k in EVA, qp and lp in Frogguy) are
> not letters as we understand the term.

Steve Ekwall's assertion that the characters inside each long gallows form 
part of a key seems reasonably likely - with the only annoying thing being 
that the number inside each varies.

Comparing frequency counts of the characters inside extended gallows with 
those outside should give a rough idea whether they're all part of the same 
language or not. That would be a sensible starting point.

Aside from this (and the obvious 
can't-you-see-they're-just-meaningless-embellishments theory), are there 
any other hypotheses about what these could be?

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling....