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hothead_bob said:
I did do that and came up with 5, all just "its", not fruits or itself!

http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?filter=col108&query=its&submit=Go

Edited at 11:17 Sun 15/11/09 (GMT)


Hmmm.... Some of those "its"es aren't part of the actual text of the KJV, Instead, they belong to descriptions to the sections of the books, and these descriptions have evidently been added by the publisher. For example, in the first result, Psalm 28, the original text did not include the description "A Prayer for Help and Praise for Its Answer". Instead, it just tore straight into it with verse 1: "Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock...". (I'm not sure whether the other bit "A Psalm of David" was part of it or not...) So, five is incorrect. Good effort though...
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Haha would that make it just 1 then?
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That would make it just 1 indeed:

Leviticus 25:5 said:
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.


That's the only place where "its" is used. "It" emerged from the Old English form hit. After the system of grammatical gender dissipated in Middle English, its meaning became "the thing or animal spoken about before" (with he/him and she/her presumably representing those things definitely masculine or feminine in characteristic). However, the genitive (possessive) form seems to have remained as his, and the KJV shows this wonderfully in this example, when God speaks to the serpent who has tempted Eve:

Genesis 3:15 said:
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.


Also, Exodus 21:28 speaks of the stoning of an ox but "his flesh shall not be eaten", and Exodus 27:3 speaks of making an altar: "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass."

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Lev 25:5 is the only case where the very commonplace Modern English word "its" makes an appearance in the whole King James Version of 1611. Compare that to the New International Version, which was complete in 1978, 5 years after the New Testament was first published. "Its" appears in 836 different verses, inevitably more than once in some of these.

So, take a deep breath and prepare for the next question...

Name any English word containing the combination of letters 'ough' pronounced as "ow" (as in "loud" or "howl").
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Plough.
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Yip, or bough, or... is that it? Anyway, your go!!
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A common analogy explains that _____ itself is expanding, carrying ____ with it, like _____ in a rising loaf of bread.

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Fill the gaps!
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A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread.
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Yaha!
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Yahoo!!

Right, what adjective is used to describe someone or something from the Isle of Man?
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Seen this mentioned somewhere hold on..
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ul_son said:
clooneman said:
By the way, what would you call the residents of the Isle of Man?


The iMen :-O



clooneman
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lol! Nope!
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celtic people
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Nope! Those are found there (I think), and also in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and I think in Cornwall and Brittany too.
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Is it Manx?
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It is! Your go!
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Name the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
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The P = NP problem
The Hodge conjecture
The Poincaré conjecture (solved by Grigori Perelman, after which he declined the prestigious Fields Medal, saying that "if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed")
The Riemann hypothesis
Yang-Mills existence and mass gap
Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
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Indeed!

Make for some interesting reading some of them

Your go!
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