Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
The History of English Podcast
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Tindal Coin Heword Seashore
If you refer to some one as a weakling, you can thank tindale for that. He used it in a passage from first corinthians to refer to a soft or effeminate man. The king james version kept the same wording, but in the 13 hundreds, john wickliff had translated the line as those things that be rather than the powers that be. If you ever say that some one doesn't suffer, foo s gladly, that phrase can also be traced back to tindal. It's derived from a passage in second corinthians which tindal rendered as for, ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye yourselves are wise.
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