"Intriguingly, too, Skousen (a specialist, be it remembered, in linguistics and the English language) contends that the language of the Book of Mormon isn’t Joseph Smith’s early 19th-century dialect, but English of the 1500s and 1600s.
Why would a book of mostly "B.C." gold plates be so filled with 17th century verbiage when people in the 19th century (for the most part) didn't use that as part of their daily vernacular?
Well, see and join the discussion on that matter at the link in this post.
In rendering down the history of various individuals named in an early pre-Civil War Baptist church ledger, my sister in law was beside herself trying to figure out why the church clerk thought we should know something about THAT!
One day I realized she was reading it as SODOMIST