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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

William Tyndale originally mistranslated it as “escape goat”. So wrong, but also not fully.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Really interesting. Etymonline dates scape (v) to the early 13th century. So it was used as an alternate form of 'escape' for a couple of hundred years before Tyndale. Not such a misuse in the OP after all.

    But it's still apostrophically terrible.

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