>>Don't know if you came across it but the beeb did a series on Radio 4 a while back about the translation of the King James bible.
>>What was striking there was how many phrases (cliches if you like) from that are now part of everyday language.
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>Wonder if that was related to the book I read on the subject:
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http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Secretaries-Making-James-Bible/dp/0060959754/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1317992759&sr=8-7>
>Bit of a challenging read, but quite interesting.
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>Tamar
One of my favorite GBS lines was from Pygmalion where Higgins says to Eliza "Remember you are a human being with the Divine gift of articulate speech, and your language is the language of Shakespeare, and Milton and the Bible ... " <g>
I still find it impossible to tolerate Biblical text in any other version <s>
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