Category: Linguistics

  • June 21, 2019
    Well isn't this fascinating. Shakespeare's plays were pronounced significantly differently when they were originally performed. And we miss some humor…
  • December 15, 2018
    I'm editing some Puritan prayers for a new Lexham Press project, and I'm really enjoying the edification provided by these…
  • December 11, 2018
    This is exactly where I'm at: Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find abhorrent – this makes you…
  • July 31, 2018
    It seems that the phrase “grandfathered in”—as in, “Smokers who were already working at the company were grandfathered into the…
  • July 20, 2018
    The ESV (2000s) of 1 Thessalonians 5:22: Abstain from every form of evil. Wycliffe’s translation (1380s) of the same verse:…
  • June 26, 2018
    True story I just have to share somewhere: I recently asked a precious and generous and godly and intelligent family…