Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language Book

The King James Bible has contributed more to English than any other source. In this enlightening book David Crystal asks why. He looks at how its words have been given new life by poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, journalists, advertisers, film-makers, hip-hop artists, and many others.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This astonishing book has ácontributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source,' wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject: he asks how a work published in...

  • 9780199585854
  • 9780199585854
  • David Crystal
  • 23 September 2010
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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