Dr. Sandra Glahn

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The Bible Translated into "Texan"

Want a Bible app that distinguishes between the second-person singular and second-person plural? Thanks to DTS’s executive director of Communications and Educational Technology, John Dyer, you can access the “Texan” version of the Bible (“Y'all are the light of the world"), which comes with the option for additional dialects ("you guys," "yinz," and "you lot”).

As it turns out, in “Texan,” “y’all” appears 2,698 times in the Old Testament and 2,022 times in the New. The plugin or extension can be used only in Google Chrome for popular Bible reading websites such as youversion.com, biblegateway.com and biblewebapp.com (Dyer’s own web site), where readers can use the plugin on any browser without downloading.

In addition to choosing the vernacular, you guys can opt to have verses that include the name of God (commonly appearing as "LORD" in English translations) rendered as "Yahweh."