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Another military blunder made the front page of the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong.
' The pronunciation “for-tay” is an illiteracy, scarcely attributable (as given here and in various dictionaries) to a confusion with the musical direction so pronounced because that is a loanword from Italian: those who know about musical directions are not likely to blunder that badly.
*ghost-word, a word that has originated in the blunder of a scribe or printer--common in dictionaries
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
So, before we fault St. Jerome for a blunder, let us consider that so impressive a linguistic scholar as he may have chosen to give Moses horns deliberately by using cognate imagery he understood to stand for dignity and power.