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Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:44 pm
by jec68
The Gospel Library contains a misspelling in the Doctrine and Covenants 35:13--"thresh" should be "thrash".
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:25 pm
by russellhltn
It's the same way on-line.
Thresh - "separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism.
"machinery that can reap and thresh corn in the same process""
Thresh seems more fitting.
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 6:30 am
by jec68
Good point. "Thresh" may well have been the original intent in this verse; seems very likely.
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 6:32 am
by jec68
According to Oxford, "thresh" is a variant spelling of "thrash."
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:28 am
by russellhltn
jec68 wrote:According to Oxford, "thresh" is a variant spelling of "thrash."
According to "Oxford Languages", the parent of Oxford Dictionaries, that is the second definition. I cited the first one.
I agree that the image of separating the wheat from the chaff is more likely than "beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip".
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:05 pm
by lajackson
russellhltn wrote:It's the same way on-line.
How fascinating. It is "thrash" in my old-fashioned printed version of the scriptures. I wonder if that was a 2013 change. (My hard copy predates those changes.)
Re: Misspelling in D&C Gospel Library (android)
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:55 pm
by russellhltn
lajackson wrote:How fascinating. It is "thrash" in my old-fashioned printed version of the scriptures. I wonder if that was a 2013 change. (My hard copy predates those changes.)
Indeed! Page 5.
Summary of Approved Adjustments for the 2013 Edition of the Scriptures
The change affects D&C 133:59 as well.