Re: vms <--> english dictinary

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Claus, that is fun!

If I may play that game too, here is another "dictionary decoding" of
the VMS, but using the words from Nicholas Culpeper's Herbal (each
assigned to a Voynichese word of same frequency rank):

    # Fun "deciphering" of the VMS
    # Tokens mapped to English by voyn-to-engl-fun.tbl
    # (word lists paired by frequency ranking).
    # Last edited on 2002-01-23 15:15:11 by stolfi

    soaked open or courtesie being stronger oak may remedy sight sory fasten
    it may could directions liver ar?  women women melancholly syaiir ripe
    it used dropsie nois encreasing grapes stone ooiin from woman roloty
    mussilage the which it liquor courses may after pointed feed cowslip =
    ydaraishy = ?  authors ?  may being flowered oydar kind they cumberland
    shodary flux way okchoy bruised vinegar oschy not this gives the serpents
    applying way = not stalk short = ?  bleeding mithridates and they chamomel
    tender yeerly morphew past voices otairin were liquor wisdom sckhey the
    yours sugar gerard tops mollifieth was hard ruptures groweth not foot a
    then bloud also some melancholly root march the choller needs this that
    know a a remedy a many a shodan falling its out help many k?eam beleeve
    excellent apply pouder stop sell root octavius beneficial being hard
    uneven mingled piles not meridian ever shcthaiin lay is ?chy p?tol forgot
    d?octa words this is not sugar = on him = finger description shokcheey
    a tshodeesy that pydeey good provoke groweth ydoin a not chollick are
    her every are that women time wine every watry use the french grow the
    nourisher black purged green the therfore united ?chol stops by dc?eo way
    member root therfore under under by fainting ?heo a bruise let bigness =
    english = tenents buy and shady first brused up yteeay first it ignorance
    fits lkody rhewmatick seed phylosophers together cover together smal
    rag root violent by little corrupted leaves roots sochey count = potoy
    being leaves fingers are is standing tall yeerly syrup a grow being such
    retentive gum well good root wil and cho?es if little was fall little rom
    fall rhenish use being know husband a say a grow seed a the more use a
    little say are being high larger are way taor emperor by seed astologers
    been nothing = volumn began the rue ypchaiin medicin rulers poyson
    they more root feet taken was may this good treatise put ?haiidy lock
    them tops drinks waters groweth otochor for cure a melancholly ytchaiin
    melancholly into palsies quotidian distilled bones unto find root more
    together ornament a melancholly = volubility description square they
    being sprout yksh meal orient recovereth know other upon bruis ague a
    shal not overpressed flowers driveth being ripe the was manner into into
    bounds by good cures whence melancholly olsaiin other needs use good
    this before burn challengeth heal into tree beginning make many somwhat
    is the one = mead much biting have done this leaves abortion cool its
    many being poor omitted decoction this the branches this infectious a
    seed bloud one the many dipped juyce help = troubled smal him destroy
    think out a the out a this a manner good over the here heal the emperor
    strange hitherto three back clean holland this if a ros = tsheos aniseeds
    a grow palsie taking this roots qotcham quality fluxes qocheor a the
    root smaler this set quality quality time your idea's they quality grow
    ychtaiin this beaten herb roots bruised old enough yeers glassed beets
    [...]
    poyson that okai?n of as there smal qokai?n is power ai?n that qokai?n
    yet leaf ninth it for hereby doctor that upon that qokai?n no footsteps
    and chedy??cheylchy rashly liver liver rai?n sheai?n okai?n that hath
    leavs orai?n wil qoka?in without qokai?n shekai?n shkai?n to that qoka?
    quality stalk or for her stayeth ?hcphy common metaphysicks authors ?ty
    that former saykeedy i no and myzaldus now there is an winter then that
    add claws good = oqokai?n for that so offending pains shcph?y from wine
    made okydy osai?n ears qorai?n honey upon lkechy all such small flowing
    sykar ai?n olk?ey dai?n purposes so is not may pride boyled take s?s?r
    that upon okeolan is an it at especially gout and wrinkled almonds set
    one leavs an ai?n som

All the best,

--stolfi