Though some believers are adamantly “KJV-only,” many more have an enduring attachment to the “Authorized” version for reasons of nostalgia and sentiment. They don’t mind that the pastor uses another version, but they instinctively pray in Elizabethan English.
This is what they know. And besides, they say, it’s not that hard to understand the English of the King James Version if you’re used to it — some elements of the language haven’t changed at all!
But what seems familiar might be more foreign than you think. For instance, the KJV uses the word “unicorn” six times. Before you get sucked too far down the rabbit-hole of the deep web searching “unicorns in the Bible,” you might want to find out what a “false friend” is.
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