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The SIL, which is a sister organization of the Huntington Beach, Calif., based Wycliffe Bible Translators, has Scripture translation projects under way in some 1,200 languages (at a cost of about $100 million annually).
All told there have been about 250 English translations of the Bible since the first complete one produced by John Wycliffe and his colleagues in 1382.
But from the time of John Wycliffe until the mid 1600s, we spelled it abhominable in the belief that it sprang from the Latin elements ab away from and homo man.
Wycliffe's painfully literal first edition has this: And God said, Be made light; and made is light.
John Wycliffe had rendered this in English in 1382, but that was pre-printing press, and hand copies of this stilted, verbatim Lollard construction were scarce.