From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Why "traditional date"?   
    >   
    > Because the KJV was classified as a revision rather than a fresh   
    > translation, it does not appear in the registry of new books known as the   
    > Stationers' Register....we are left without any knowledge of when in 1611   
    > the KJV began to be sold.... - Gordon Campbell, _Bible: The Story of the   
    > King James Version 1611-2011_ (quoted by Crystal)   
    >   
    > It was not a fresh translation because it often continues earlier   
    > translations such as that of Tyndale and Coverdale (see 20 January).   
    >   
    > But we are left without any knowledge of the whence and by whom of the May 2   
    > "myth".   
      
   I take it the second of January (or the first of February) of the subject line   
   was not intended?   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)