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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI'm dumb. I just had to look up Vulgate and Douay.
And I took Latin in the seventh grade.
I came across these words in a crossword puzzle.
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I'm dumb. I just had to look up Vulgate and Douay. (Original Post)
panader0
Nov 2019
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Did you wipe off the crossword puzzle after that?
panader0
(25,816 posts)2. The book has 500 NYT puzzles.
When i'm stuck I just turn the page.
I mean, when the pages are stuck together.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. It's remarkable that you came across them both in the puzzle
Instead of going down on them.
panader0
(25,816 posts)8. especially at my age.
I'll be 69 all year.
CurtEastPoint
(18,638 posts)3. Two translations of the Bible, no?
Vulate is Latin. Douay? ENglish?
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. The Douay is the translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English.
Everyone has to believe in something, I believe I'll have another beer.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)9. Thank you. Many of us owe you a beer.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)6. No. They were Saddam Hussein's kids
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)7. You ain't dumb, you were ignorant and corrected that by educating yourself. So sez I.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)10. I would look them up, but I don't know how to.
panader0
(25,816 posts)11. Like my old boss used to say:
"If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the
dictionary."
I checked and it's true.