Why the Voynich Zodiac - isn't

[MichelleL11]

 . . . the inner nomina signo*(sign names), I dont undertand the ending of signo*.

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But don't feel badly, the -rum abbreviation (and variants) have actually been used, particularly by scribes, in quite creative ways that are not obvious.  For example, a similar shape has been relatively rarely used as an abbreviation for "recipe."  Might even be a forerunner for our modern day Rx -- but there's a lot of competing theories out there as to source symbols -- that are hard to pin down precisely, given the time involved, printers' creativity in using similar symbols for other things, and the creativity of people looking for a good explanation.  Maybe someday it would be worth researching better, but there is only so much time in the day.