24 DECEMBER 1948, Page 16

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Sta,—Does Mr. R. Kennard Davis imply that we should take the Authorised Version, or any other English work of its period, as a justification for ungrammatical constructions? If so, language would indeed be in even a worse state of chaos than it is. Large concordancds could be made of grammatical errors in the Bible translations, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and almost every other writer, from Chaucer onward. The Bible translations, from Tyndale to the Authorised, are particularly rich in them