usage ridicule

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Mar 28 17:47:54 UTC 2012


I was hoping we could identify His fair copy.

Joel

At 3/28/2012 11:14 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>So if the Lord doesn't care, why should we?
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>JL
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>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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