Month: August 2021
Bromide
Undulant
Scuttlebutt
When office workers catch up on the latest scuttlebutt around the water cooler, they are continuing a long-standing tradition that probably also occurred on the sailing ships of yore. Back in the early 1800s, the cask containing a ship’s daily…
Callow
Oscines
Abject
New Additions of Literature of the Sacred – Translations of the Bible and the Quran – and The Present State of the Jews (Synagoga Judaica or Juden Schul)
Note the new additions to our library. It is now possible to explore some of the Bible translations that preceded the King Jame Version, which you can also find in our library. (See our earlier post for an example of…
The Quran: English Translations
A number of different translations of the Quran are now available in our library. Compare the top ten most frequently used words (the content word vector) in these three translations: Translated out of Arabick into French. BY THE Sieur du…
Achilles Tatius: The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, Translations 1638 & 1855
Two translations of Achilles Tatius’s The loves of Clitophon and Leucippe are now available in our library. The two translators write very different introductions (see below). The top ten most frequently used words in each translation suggest that the two…