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Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English language. Show all posts
Friday, May 23, 2025

Tyndale “firsts”

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William Tyndale (ca. 1492-1536) was a pioneer of English Bible translation. Tyndale’s translation of the Bible into English accomplished se...
Friday, February 07, 2025

A Table of All the Pronouns

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  The British Grammar: Or, An Essay in Four Parts… , James Buchanan.  London: A. Millar, 1762, p. 102
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Check your sources, again

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In May 2024 I wrote a post for my blog titled “ Check Your Sources .” It grew out of discovering a discrepancy in the online resource Blue L...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

English idioms based on the Bible

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“ The Sun says Aston Villa ‘refused to give up the ghost’. Wendy Richard calls her EastEnders character Pauline Fowler ‘the salt of the ear...
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Friday, March 08, 2024

Introducing Archaic English

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Some odds and ends I have collected. The Dawley Dictionary gives some words and phrases of English dialect they believe is disappearing. Th...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

You Again

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Quoting two authors. “It is true that Elizabethan English is more precise than modern English in its use of pronouns. Nevertheless I confess...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

The English Letter “J” and the KJV

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In a strange screed about “ Translation Errors In The King James Version ,” the author contrives a weird view of translation. Since “No ‘J’ ...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Tyndale’s 1526 Preface

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Preface to the 1526 translation of the New Testament, by William Tyndale: “Give diligence, reader (I exhort thee) that thou come with a pu...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

“Moe” and “More”

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I find delightful the study of changes in the English language, and especially regarding words of the Bible. As I continued to study the 161...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Tyndale’s biblical archaism

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For his translation of the New Testament, William Tyndale revived archaic pronoun and verb ending usage. Here is a quote from The Diachrony ...