Originally posted by RightFromWrong:
Ed what does "vncleannesse" and "walke" and "gouernment" and "euill"
Mean ?
I'm quoting the
King James Version, 1611 Edition (KJV1611).
The KJV1611 was changed before the common KJV1769
in:
1. The KJV1611 used U and V before they switched place
So 'vncleannesse' means 'uncleanness'
Did you ever wonder why the letter 'W' is called 'double U'
but looks like a 'double V'? The name of 'W'
was determined when the symbol 'V' stood
for what we now call 'U'.
2. Apparently in 1611 the silent 'e' was used
all the time. Now the silet 'e' is only used
when one might confuse the sound with another
word. Example:'bite' and 'bit' - the 'e'
is not sounded in 'bite' but makes the 'i'
have a different sound. In 'walke' the silent
'e' means the 'a' sounds different, but there
is no seperate word 'walk' to confuse one.
Today we just 'use 'walk' and remember how the
'a' is to be sounded.
3. Prior to 1611 (it had already happened
but the KJV1611 Translators decided to
use the old way) the letter 'I' stood
for both the vowel 'I' and the constant 'J'.
So let us Praise
Iesus Sonne of God! \o/