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15:35 Sun 15 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
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...
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)
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...
13:37 Mon 16 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
That would make it just 1 indeed:
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:
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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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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13:41 Mon 16 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
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").
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").
15:53 Mon 16 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
Yip, or bough, or... is that it? Anyway, your go!!
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18:14 Mon 16 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
A common analogy explains that _____ itself is expanding, carrying ____ with it, like _____ in a rising loaf of bread.
No mistakes this time
Fill the gaps!
No mistakes this time
Fill the gaps!
20:11 Mon 16 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread.
14:32 Tue 17 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
Yahoo!!
Right, what adjective is used to describe someone or something from the Isle of Man?
Right, what adjective is used to describe someone or something from the Isle of Man?
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14:48 Tue 17 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
The iMen :-O
ul_son said:
clooneman said:
By the way, what would you call the residents of the Isle of Man?
The iMen :-O
16:06 Tue 17 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
Nope! Those are found there (I think), and also in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and I think in Cornwall and Brittany too.
19:03 Tue 17 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
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
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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19:07 Tue 17 Nov 09 (GMT) [Link]
Indeed!
Make for some interesting reading some of them
Your go!
Make for some interesting reading some of them
Your go!
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