On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:52:29AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > Because we have bible-kjv, a program that browses it. The bible, besides > being a excellent source of statistical information about the languages > it has been translated into, is often used as a reference book, like an > encyclopedia or dictionary. Those are of definite use to most people, > especially when there are programs to aid in using them as a reference > (dict, bible-kjv).
As a data point, I use bible-kjv to look up a quote or phrase relatively often; as a wild guess, about 10% as often as I use dict to look up a word. I certainly use it more than any file from miscfiles, for example. And I'm not even a Christian. Quotes from the bible are simply in common use in the language (and many people who use them don't even realize it :). I would appreciate a tool for browsing the works of Shakespeare for the same reason. Richard Braakman
