06-11-2026, 12:55 AM
cphol is a pretty word. I hope someday I can learn what it means.
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I'm still playing with the idea that f and p are "B" and "P" but I don't know which is which and still no sign of the missing "L".
As I understand it, both alphabet and spelling were the Wild, Wild West in pre-Jan Hus written Old Czech. There was no standardized spelling. No dictionary. Every scribe did his own thing. They took Latin letters and ran them together to make symbols for the sounds they wanted to represent. In the early 15th century, there was no háček (mostly consonants like č, š, ž) or čárka (long vowels like á, é, í) or kroužek (ů).
If it turns out that the Voynich Manuscript really is pre-Jan Hus Old Czech, that will make it a very valuable item for historical linguistics.
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15 matches on 13 pages
I'm still playing with the idea that f and p are "B" and "P" but I don't know which is which and still no sign of the missing "L".
As I understand it, both alphabet and spelling were the Wild, Wild West in pre-Jan Hus written Old Czech. There was no standardized spelling. No dictionary. Every scribe did his own thing. They took Latin letters and ran them together to make symbols for the sounds they wanted to represent. In the early 15th century, there was no háček (mostly consonants like č, š, ž) or čárka (long vowels like á, é, í) or kroužek (ů).
If it turns out that the Voynich Manuscript really is pre-Jan Hus Old Czech, that will make it a very valuable item for historical linguistics.