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Quotes About Seventeenth-century English

Joseph Smith, its enterprisingly mendacious inventor, went to the lengths of composing a complete new holy book, the Book of Mormon, inventing from scratch a whole new bogus American history, written in bogus seventeenth-century English.
~ Richard Dawkins
It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name—corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.
~ Mark Kurlansky