Anna McKeon: Where Beautiful Started

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Anna McKeon discusses the evolution of the English language as influenced by William Tyndale, who translated the Bible to English and invented many of the words we use today along the way.

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Anna McKeon Where Beautiful Started

In principio creavit Deus

cælum et terram.

Trans: In the Beginning, God created heaven and the earth

The Powers that be

Let there be light

Fight the good fight

The signs of the times

Eat, drink and be merry

My brother’s keeper

Ye of little faith

or

Made up to translate Hebrew azael – goat that departs

JEHOVAH Anglicized form of the classical Hebrew Yahweh

Passover Made up rather than just using pesach

Scapegoat

Newly combined beauty + Germanic -ful (“full of”) - rather than the more common ‘belle’ or ‘fair’

Atonement At-one-ment to translate the Hebrew root behind Kippur (K-P-R)

Beautiful

thr iz no rite or wrng lingo, any mr

thn thr iz rite or wrng in n8tur s’all bout

restless + continuous chng evlutn variation

S’naked obv + rite that r lingo hz evolvd +

wll continue to evolv

wrdz r free

lovache

wrdz

Anna McKeon

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