RE: VMs: f11v - dd vs. gg

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 14:29 24/05/2005 -0600, Dana Scott wrote:
> I suspect that the 88 seen in f11v was not made by the scribe but was 
> marginalia added later by someone who was investigating the VMs as an eye 
> catcher to the 88g seen in the text for that same line.

As for me, I suspect instead that this is marginalia by the original 
author(s): the 8 shape matches the Voynichese 8 shape well. Perhaps this 
was a note to himself/herself to avoid getting caught up in "dy ddy" 
tangles on later pages (which make the "dy" verbose pair too obvious)?

Of course, "dy ddy" might also attest to a late 20th century forgery, 
perhaps by Ken Dodd or Sean Combs? Unlikely but... there's always plenty of 
competition for the worst VMs hypothesis. :-)

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


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