usage ridicule

[Jonathan Lighter]

So if the Lord doesn't care, why should we?

JL

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> On 3/28/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> > Can we reconstruct the author's fair copy from these two variants?
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> > Joel
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> Re: the "a hairy" and "an hairy" appearing in KJV in different books:
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> Remember that it was created by committee and drafts of the translations
> were read aloud. I think this simply shows us that there was variation
> back then as well.
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