A passage you’ll recognise from William Tyndale’s English Bible, but it does some interesting things with gender:<\/p>\n
“In the begynnynge was the worde, and the worde was with God: and the word was God. The same was in the begynnynge wyth God. All things were made by it and with out it was made nothinge that was made.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
By the time of King James, however, God had suddenly become male.<\/p>\n
The disputes between Tyndale and Sir Thomas More yielded even more colourful language. Among their lost words:<\/p>\n
“A gorbelly<\/em> was a fat man, often to be found in a sottys hoffe<\/em>, a drinking den, where he became sowe-drunke<\/em>, and a nodypoll<\/em> was a blockhead who was often apyssche<\/em>, or fantastically foolish. A prym<\/em> was a pretty girl, and a galyarde<\/em> a high spirited young man, with an eye for caterwaywynge<\/em>, lechery.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From B. Moynahan, William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life. A Story of Martyrdom, Betrayal and the English Bible<\/i>, p. 390, p. 192<\/p>\n
I do like nodypoll – wonder if it could be resurrected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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