[T Minus Four]

Thank you very much but I don’t need compassion I am doing just find... After reading for so many months of the kind of replies I have received I must remember the limitations of some others!

I have compassion for your dyslexia but not one whit for your bitter, mean spirit.

[greyfoxx39]

[SZonian]

Ooooh, you used the word “whit”.

Here’s another word whose use in the BoM, a supposed “ancient record of a “lost” tribe of Israel" can’t be explained…

Alma 42: 25 What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God. “

"...whit..."????

Origin:

1470–80; perh[aps] an alter[ation] of ME wiht

wiht origin:

From Germanic *wextiz. Cognate with Old Saxon wiht (Dutch wicht), Old High German wiht (German Wicht), Old Norse vættr (exceptional creature), vætr, véttr, or vétr (Danish vætte, Swedish vätte), Gothic (waihts).(ca. 12th c.)

[edit] Noun - wiht (plural wihtu)

creature, person, thing, being

Descendants: English: wight; whit

So here we have another example of a word used in the BoM whose origins can be traced as far back as the 12th century, but I can't trace it back any further.

How did such a word come to be used in a book supposedly written hundreds of years earlier and never be known in another language until the Norse, Germanic and Scandinavian cultures came onto the scene?

Hmmm, I guess we're just supposed to ignore the little man behind the curtain manning the controls?

[restornu]

Yikes more evidence of “Hardening of the Heart”