Peter,
I admit that there is more conformity to a written language; however, in the
English language you continue to find a great deal of diversity in spelling
until Webster published a standard dictionary for us to use. ...
... I believe you
also find that the written language varied considerably until we had the
standards of Shakespeare, the printed Bible, and finally a printed grammar.
Prior to these, the written language reflected the dialect. ...
... Even now,
regional differences can be seen in both written and spoken English. For
example, a small region of southern Ohio refers to the rear storage
compartment of a car as a "boot." ...
... Almost everywhere else in the country, itIndeed, I have no doubt of this. But it does not imply a single editor or a small school of editors as you first suggested. One possible model is that the first few books were indeed from such a single source, and that later books were written in imitation of the style of these early books, which quickly became established as a stylistic model at least for this kind of genre.
is a "trunk." I believe it is the same area of the country that universally
calls every soft drink a "pop." Their neighbors to the east and the west
refer to it as a "soda" or a "soda pop." Given any isolation in time or
geography, I expect that we should find that locals used a different
vocabulary and when they used the same words spelled those words
phonetically according to the local pronunciation.
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy
I am ready to believe that the Hebrew Bible helped them develop a consistent
use for the language.
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