Sarah Nelson

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Much of the beauty of the later and better-known King James Version of the Bible comes directly from Tyndale. In fact, in recent years, because of the precision of computer analysis, scholars have begun to understand the full extent to which Tyndale’s translation actually ended up in the King James Bible. Analysts now say as much as 80% of the entire King James Bible is pure Tyndale, and the King James Version New Testament is fully 90% the work of this one man.
King Alfred's English, a History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do
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