In my maniacal quest to rid the world of historical typos I’ve found another and it too is Biblical. You might remember the last one was Yeaster instead of Easter.
I did this based on the grounds that no one’s ever heard of an Easter. There is ni such thing. But yeast is a common kitchen ingredient widely used to make things — things like bread/slain Saviors —rise. The next one is obvious, but clearly careless:
Crucifixion ought to be crossifaction.
Let’s break it down. The first point substantiates the entire premise.
Jesus died on a cross not a croos or a cruse.
There is simply no logical or historical reason the word became “U” or “ooo” dominated.
Secondly, the latter half of the — pronounced FiK-shun comes straight out of the Roman Army playbook to cast suspicion on the story of the resurrection. It was, they’d contend, a fiction, make believe, a fraud.
Crossifaction puts the “fact” right in the description,
So, clearly, it should be crossifaction, not crucifixion.
Or used in a sentence: “We told them crackers that they had the wrong guy, but they went and done crossified poor Terry anyways,”
I ask that you remember the correct construction next spring when our thoughts once again return to the evergreen story of the Yeaster miracle.
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