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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWhorter.

I teach linguistics at Columbia University, and today's show is going to be about something

you probably didn't expect me to touch on in this show, The Bible.

Yep, it's going to be all about the good book today. And of course, we have to have

some music to bring that on. And no, I'm not going to use the soundtrack from the Ten Commandments,

because that would be too easy. And it's not what's in my head. If I think of the Bible,

and I put music on it, frankly, quite viscerally, it is this.

Just listen to this and tell me that this doesn't get you thinking about roughly Exodus.

Here.

Thank you. That is, for those of you who are wondering, that's William Walton.

He's British, and he isn't played enough. That's the Crown Imperial Coronation March. It stirs me to my guts, and it also

sounds like the Bible. Anyway, the issue that we're going to deal with today is the King James

version of the Bible, the K-JV, what many of you might think of as the quote-unquote real one.

And actually, many of you might find this episode slant more familiar if you've been listening to me long enough to remember that show about Shakespeare two summers ago.

Remember way back when people were wondering, who is this guy they have doing Lexicon

Valley now who sits there rambling on about Lucy and his car and show tunes? Remember that?

Well, back then there was that Shakespeare show where the idea was, is it possibly time to,

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